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20 January 2023

Making a major difference to patient care

Dr Steve Holmes discusses recent challenges in general practice and his hopes for the coming years in the Severn Faculty.

20 December 2022

The wellbeing prescription: social prescribing in action at Alvanley Family Practice

When Alvanley Family started to map their community activities, with the help of their volunteer Practice Health Champions, they knew they would need a way to direct their patients to activities in a trusted way.

16 December 2022

Coding is caring: Using data to combat the Strep A outbreak

The current Strep A outbreak is bringing the work of the RCGP Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) into focus.

22 November 2022

Islamophobia in the NHS: Tackling Denial

This year’s theme for Islamophobia Awareness Month is “tackling denial”, a fitting reminder for a pervasive and under-recognised endemic in the NHS.

19 November 2022

Welcome from your new chair

Firstly, I want to say thank you for the warm reception I’ve received since the announcement of my election.

01 November 2022

Islamophobia – Time to tackle denial

As primary care physicians, we experience many cases of denial: a patient not seeking medical advice for symptoms or coming to terms with a new diagnosis.

20 October 2022

Representation within the medical field

Tahmina discusses her experience of becoming a GP, as a South Asian woman and as a Muslim woman.

17 October 2022

Group exercise instructors: healthcare’s secret weapon?

If there were thousands of workers at your disposable to educate communities on the benefits of physical activity, would you want to work with them?

17 October 2022

Myself will be your surgeon: An archive blog for Black History Month 2022

Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor (1849-1904), born in Sierra Leone, appears in the 1871 census as a medical student in London. He would, four years later go on to father the composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor. He does not seem to appear in medical directories.