South East Scotland Faculty
A warm welcome from South East Scotland Faculty. We are a group of volunteer RCGP members who provide local networking, education and support for members in the area. We cover Edinburgh, East and West Lothian, the Scottish Borders and South Fife, supporting 1200 RCGP members, Fellows and AiTs. As a Faculty, we have a particular interest in supporting our members' CPD and professional development and provide a range of education courses, tailored to local needs, including supporting local medical students and our trainees as well as a number of awards to support and recognise innovation and development.
Get involved
Upcoming events
06 August 2024
Emotional Intelligence at the Reception and Front Line Complaint Handling
Join RCGP Scotland for this training by Dr Val McGarrell, for all non-clinical staff in GP Practices. The training aims to upskill frontline colleagues to build resilience and empathy when dealing with difficult situations and patient complaints at the GP reception, and more.
24 August 2024
Manchester Pride 2024
We are excited to announce that the RCGP has once again been selected to have an official presence at the Manchester Pride Parade on Saturday 24th August 2024. Join RCGP and walk with us in the parade. Register now for your free parade wristbands! It is such an amazing atmosphere to be part of the parade and a day to remember. If the sun is shining it 'could' possible be better than Liverpool's Eurovision! 'Could'!! Everyone is welcome to join us, GPs, team members, patients, friends, family, EVERYONE. You don't have to be LGBTQ+, you just need to support!
06 September 2024
Telephone consulting and triage skills
This online course will provide you with a real understanding of how to manage the risks involved in remote telephone consultations and the benefits this work can bring when practiced effectively. This day will give you tools and techniques to best handle remote telephone consultations.
10 September 2024
Discovering the potential of General Practice
Join us for our first-ever all-Scotland trainee and early career conference, aiming to boost your connection to the College as your professional home, and feeling energised and enthused about your future as a GP. During the morning you will hear from the RCGP Scotland Chair, Dr Chris Provan with various breakout sessions in the afternoon covering topics such as leadership, sustainability, mentoring, policy and health inequalities.
Next board meeting and AGM
We meet four times per year, in February, June, September and November to progress our local engagement activities and discuss issues pertinent to our members, which are then fed back to both Scottish and UK Council. All local members are very welcome to attend Board meetings and participate in these discussions – we are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us develop our local engagement programme.
The 2024 Faculty Board meetings are scheduled to take place online on:
- Tuesday 27 February 2024
- Tuesday 11 June 2024
- Thursday 5 September 2024
- Thursday 21 November 2024.
Awards and prizes
Allen and Margaret Wilson Award
Awarded biennially to a GP to recognise and congratulate their work in research. The 2023 winner is Dr Kieran Sweeney.
Dr Pat Manson Educators Award
The Dr Pat Manson Educators Award is presented to an educationalist who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of General Practice Speciality Training in South East Scotland. It is intended to recognise the contribution to training by anyone, medical or non-medical, involved in GPST education who is currently working within the region. The winner of the 2023 Award is Dr Patrick Sheil.
Trainee of the Year award
This is awarded to the South East of Scotland trainee who has achieved the highest combined score for the AKT and CSA/RCA exams in the preceding twelve months. The 2023 winner is Dr Claire Morgan.
Meet your faculty
Faculty Officers
- Dr Babar Akbar - Chair and Scottish Council Rep
- Dr Ed Russell-Smith - Provost
- Dr Yusuf Lalloo - Honorary Treasurer
Faculty Board members
- Dr Robert Duncan
- Dr Sian Tucker - UK Council Rep
- Dr Niall Campbell - UK Council Deputy Rep
- Dr Susan Arnold
- Dr Paul Bailey
- Dr Stuart Blake
- Dr Katie Cathrow - Education Lead
- Dr Jenny English
- Dr Rob Lawson
- Dr Carey Lunan
- Dr Robert Manson
- Dr Katherina Tober - F5 Lead
- Dr Elika Aspinall - Sustainability Rep
- Dr Cameron Kennedy
- Dr Kristian Turnbull
- Dr Jane McManus
- Dr Sukhdeep Gill
- Ms Pauline Hutton and Ms Theresa Cameron - Practice Manager Representative
- Ms Fiona McIntyre - Royal Pharmaceutical Society Representative
- Ms Janice Bailey - Patient Representative
- Ms Honor Mackay - ANP Representative
Contact us
RCGP South East Scotland Faculty
Telephone: 0203 188 7730
Email: sescotland@rcgp.org.uk
Your Faculty Support Officer is Diana Lints.
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