RCGP blog
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.
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.
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