Tamar Faculty
Welcome from Tamar Faculty, we support over 1,250 members, Fellows, Associates and AiTs across Devon and Cornwall. The Faculty is a group of volunteer RCGP members who provide local networking, education and support for members in the area. To take account of the wide geographical spread of members, we have four regional education leads covering Exeter, Plymouth, Torbay and Truro who organise free monthly CPD meetings in these localities.
Latest Faculty updates
Chair of the RCGP Tamar Faculty - Job advert
The Tamar Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners is recruiting a Faculty Chair. Only members of the RCGP Tamar Faculty (Devon & Cornwall) can apply.
The Chair's role, along with the Faculty officers, is to uphold the aims, objectives and values of the Faculty and RCGP acting in its best interests to enhance its reputation as a respected professional and academic body for GPs locally, to contribute proactively to the Faculty’s annual strategic planning and proposed activity supported and guided by the Faculty support team.
The Faculty Chair should attend four Faculty board meetings per annum and one AGM.
View the full role description for more information, or contact the Faculty Administrator, Alice Sefton at Tamar@rcgp.org.uk.
Closing date 5 August 2024.
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Get involved
The RCGP Tamar Faculty recruitment
The RCGP Tamar Faculty recruitment are recruiting for a number of positions on their board.
Did you know that you can make even more of your membership by joining our community at a local level? Members of our Faculty Board have opportunities to network and connect with peers, develop personally and professionally and know they are supporting great doctors, providing great care – three incredible reasons to get involved.
Our Faculty board is made up of local GPs from Devon and Cornwall, meetings are four times a year, online, they are informal and friendly, they are a chance to meet and discuss matters of the day with peers and colleagues and input at a local level to decisions made by the RCGP Council. Additionally, there are also opportunities to meet in person at some of our in person events.
Some of the other benefits of being on the board include:
- Discount to RCGP Annual Conference
- Invitation to members summit at 30 Euston Square
- Input and suggest events and opportunities for local doctors
Current vacancies
- Deputy Council representative - Dr Nick Hodges represents the Tamar Faculty at four Council meetings per year, where he informs on the board views on Council papers. We are recruiting a deputy Council representative to attend when Nick is not available. To find our more email tamar@rcgp.org.uk
- Vice council representative
- Vice chair
- Honorary Treasurer
- Equality, diversity and inclusion representative
- First 5 faculty lead - Devon
- AiT Committee member - Cornwall
We are looking for an AiT from Cornwall to join our group of AiT's who aim to bring information to their peers and submit ideas in which the way the Tamar Faculty can support AiTs around the region. This is an informal group and all are welcome. Please contact Alice Sefton at tamar@rcgp.org.uk for more information.
For more information and to apply for the roles, contact Alice Sefton.
Upcoming events
04 July 2024
The RCGP 1-day SCA preparation course
This open to all one-day training course aims to improve your consultation skills and as a result pass your SCA. The course offers interactive sessions with experienced trainers and examiners.
05 July 2024
Telephone consulting and triage skills
This online course will provide you with a real understanding of how to manage the risks involved in remote telephone consultations and the benefits this work can bring when practiced effectively. This day will give you tools and techniques to best handle remote telephone consultations.
09 July 2024
Child & adult safeguarding: level 3 | Online
This RCGP Level 3 safeguarding course is for any GP practising in England. As GPs, we care for both children and adults and the course reflects this, covering child and adult safeguarding topics – individually and jointly. The course will be based around practical considerations for busy frontline GPs. There will be plenty of time for questions throughout the day. CPD Points: includes 4 hours of child safeguarding and 4 hours of adult safeguarding.
09 July 2024
Effective out of hours training | part 2: COVID-19, Ethics, Organisational Aspects
This four-part online course is aimed at GP Trainees and GPs new to out of hours, working towards their urgent and unscheduled care competencies and GPs wanting to start or return to out of hours work.
Board meetings
The Faculty Board meet four times per year to discuss our local engagement activities and issues pertinent to our members, we then feed back to the College Council. Our Board meetings currently take place online giving equal access to as many members as possible. All local members are warmly invited to attend Board meetings and participate in these discussions.
Local training and development
Fellowship
June 2024
Fellowship is an honour and a mark of achievement recognising a significant contribution to health and welfare of the community, science or practice of medicine, and/or aims of RCGP, or any organisation which benefits general practice. Full details of applying for fellowship can be found at RCGP Fellowship. If you are unsure about any part of fellowship or want to know more about the process please contact the Tamar Faculty for more information. The faculty actively encourages its members of 5 years plus standing to consider putting themselves forward for Fellowship. We have a Faculty Fellowship Committee (FFC) within the faculty, by Dr Nick Bradley, Chair of the Faculty Fellowship Committee. The FFC can offer advice and support through the Tamar Faculty office.
Awards and prizes
We host annual awards and prizes to celebrate and recognise innovation and excellence in general practice across the Tamar area.
Meet your faculty
Faculty Officers
- Dr Susanna Hill - Chair and Council Representative
- Dr Jonathan White - Provost
- Dr Nick Hodges - Council Representative
Faculty Board Members
- Dr Humera Sultan - Education Lead
- Dr Joanna Butterworth - Medical School representative
- Dr Judit Konya - Medical School representative, First5 Lead
- Dr Chris Clark - Rural Practice Representative
- Mrs Fiona Cook - Practice Nurse Representative
- Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray - Honorary Member
- Dr Deepthi Lavu - AiT Lead
- Dr Jenna Hussain - AiT Committee member
- Dr Richard Pratt - Digital representative
- Dr Alice Warwick-James - Climate and Sustainability Lead
- Dr Laura Sims - Faculty Fellowship Lead
- Dr Chris Campbell - Fellowship Committee member
- Dr Emilie Tindall - Foundation Doctor representative
- Dr Richard Byng - Research/Medical School representative
- Dr Bajit Kalsi - Later Careers and Retired Members representative
- Dr Molly Parkinson - AiT Committee member
- Dr Helen Stephens - Training Programme representative
Contact us
Telephone: 020 3188 7712
Email: tamar@rcgp.org.uk
Office opening hours: Monday: 09:30 - 16:30, Wednesday and Thursday: 09:00 - 15:30
Your local Faculty Administrator is Alice Sefton.
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