RCGP news
26 January 2023
General practice is understaffed, underfunded and overstretched - and we and our patients deserve more, says College
Professor Kamila Hawthorne, Chair of the RCGP, responds to the latest GP workforce and workload data published by NHS Digital.
23 January 2023
We simply don’t have enough doctors to cope with the numbers of patients who need our services, says College Chair
College Chair wrote for yesterday’s Sunday Express as part of a special report headlined It’s time to place GPs at the heart of our NHS.
23 January 2023
Pharmacy services must not substitute GPs, says RCGP Chair
RCGP Chair responds to a new report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy, calling for pharmacy funding and new powers to ease NHS backlogs.
21 January 2023
Charging patients for GP appointments will not work, warns College
College Chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne has issued the following statement in response to former Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s call for patients to pay for GP appointments and visits to A&E
20 January 2023
Abuse of GPs is ‘unacceptable’, says RCGP
RCGP Chair responds to a Pulse survey that revealed widespread physical and verbal abuse of GPs and their staff.
20 January 2023
Health leaders request urgent meeting with Secretary of State over health crisis
Royal College leaders representing thousands of doctors and nurses in Northern Ireland have written to the Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris requesting an urgent meeting in light of the ongoing health crisis.
16 January 2023
Antidepressants can be effective when prescribed appropriately - but access to alternative mental health treatments needs to be improved
College response to the announcement of new draft NICE guidance on deprescribing antidepressants.
12 January 2023
GP leaders in Northern Ireland call for urgent action to tackle escalating crisis
Dr Ursula Mason, Chair of the Royal College of GPs in Northern Ireland and Dr Alan Stout, Chair of BMA GP Committee in Northern Ireland met with the five main political parties today to outline the scale of the crisis facing general practice in Northern Ireland.
12 January 2023
Statins safe and effective when prescribed appropriately – but implications for overdiagnosis and GP workload must be considered
Professor Kamila Hawthorne, Chair of the RCGP, responds to the announcement of new draft guidance from NICE on use of statins.
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