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11 March 2025

‘General practice infrastructure is simply not up to scratch’ warns College Chair

RCGP responds to NHS Confederation and NHS Providers survey data on infrastructure and capital investment.

07 March 2025

‘Patients must be able to access care without facing discrimination’ says College Chair

RCGP responds to the NHS Race and Health Observatory’s new report on Trust in Primary Care.

25 February 2025

‘The Government must tackle this unemployment crisis at its root’ warns College

RCGP responds to BMA survey findings on GP unemployment.

25 February 2025

‘It’s no surprise that easy access to our services is a priority for patients’, says College Chair

College Chair Kamila Hawthorne features in today’s Telegraph responding to polling from the Health Foundation and Ipsos on public concerns about the NHS.

17 February 2025

‘Patients should not bear the brunt of underinvestment’ warns College

RCGP responds to polling on NHS admin from the King's Fund, Healthwatch and National Voices.

14 February 2025

Money saved on TERS must be channelled to support under-doctored areas, says College Chair

College Chair Kamila Hawthorne responds to the announcement from NHS England that the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme will not receive funding in 2025/26.

13 February 2025

Abuse of any kind is ‘entirely unacceptable’, says College Chair

College Chair Kamila Hawthorne responds to reports of an increase in abuse aimed at GP teams.

10 February 2025

‘Recruiting and retaining more GPs is vital if we are to bring back the family doctor’ says College Chair

Kamila Hawthorne, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, speaks to the Telegraph about taking the NHS ‘back to basics’.

31 January 2025

Patients in deprived areas face even harder struggle to see a GP in the future, warns College

Patients in vast swathes of the country could find it even harder to see a GP in the future if vital funding to attract doctors to deprived areas is withdrawn, warns the Royal College of GPs.