RCGP blog
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.
12 October 2022
Far more fair than black?: An archive blog for Black History Month 2022
In uncovering the history of medical practitioners of black heritage, an important factor to be considered is the tension between the reality that race is a social construct and the characterisations of the era of ‘scientific racism’ which imagined the superiority of white appearance.
03 October 2022
A journeyman to grief: An archive blog for Black History Month 2022
It is too often assumed that the European past was a white mono-culture. As Black History Month begins, it is important to challenge that assumption and also any suggestion that a false history of diversity is being sown by politically motivated researchers.
30 September 2022
Celebrating Black History Month 2022
Black History Month is a good opportunity to bring conversations on diversity to the fore. We plan to facilitate these conversations throughout the month.
29 September 2022
Dr Olukayode Adeeko shares his wisdom for future clinical leaders
I have been privileged to have led over sixty GP practices in the north of England as a local medical director/ medical director in the past decade.
07 September 2022
Re-launch of the Research Engagement Hub
We have relaunched the Research Engagement Hub, a platform we have created with the NIHR-SPCR to celebrate and highlight academic general practice.
07 September 2022
Trees for GP surgeries to celebrate 70 years of best practice
RCGP Faculties, in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, invite our members to plant a tree in the grounds of your GP surgeries.
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