Rcgp Mersey Faculty

‪The second of two busy days of learning at the Conference Centre at LACE - the first for our popular ‘ENT in Primary Care’ course with Dr Rakesh Chopra and our second day ‘Mastering the 6-8 Week Baby Check’ with Dr A Jain and Dr R Mittal. More dates planned for this year - watch this space 🙂 ‬

Change is happening in the Mersey Faculty office... #NewTelephoneNumber #TeamGP

A massive thank you and congratulations to the @livgpsoc for their incredible work championing careers in general practice. The future is in safe hands 😊 #volunteersweek

Innovators Mentorship Programme – applications are now open!
Are you a UK-based entrepreneurial GP who is interested in innovation that addresses unmet needs within primary care? Applications to join the RCGP Innovators Mentorship Programme (IMP) are now open.
The programme supports small cohorts of entrepreneurial GPs to accelerate their innovation and provides professional development in non-clinical skills that are essential to becoming a successful entrepreneur. The prog...ramme offers access to a peer group of like-minded entrepreneurs, networking, mentoring from our experienced IMP mentors and the opportunity to present your innovation on a national platform.
This year we are also accepting applications from collaborative organisations (including federations, clusters, super-partnerships or similar) to join the programme and work with our GP entrepreneurs as pilot sites.
For more information please visit our website: https://www.rcgp.org.uk/imp
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Thank you to Mersey Faculty Board members past and present for your hard work and advocacy. If you're interested in getting involved as a voluntary member of the Mersey Faculty board, please visit: https://lght.ly/a0aa81m #volunteersweek

Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic contribution millions of UK volunteers make to our society. Our thanks all our volunteers for their invaluable work championing general practice within and beyond the Mersey faculty area. #volunteersweek

Wirral First5 group would like to extend an open invitation to their talk on 'stroke prevention in chronic kidney disease', taking place on Thursday 13 June 2019 at the Viking Pub, West Kirkby. CPD, a bite to eat, drink and networking! Contact mersey@rcgp.org.uk for more info 😊

Bright Idea Awards – submissions now open
The RCGP Bright Ideas Awards programme supports grassroots innovation and new approaches to practice that improve primary care. The College aims to recognise, celebrate and share the ingenuity that exists within general practice teams. Have you successfully implemented a solution to an issue you have faced in your practice? Please submit it for the chance to win a Bright Idea Award. For more information please visit our website: https://www.rcgp.org.uk/bright-ideas
Application form: https://r1.dotmailer-surveys.com/b649lxf0 -b731ykaf

A message from Cheshire LMC:
Calling all sessional GPs in Cheshire:
Cheshire LMC would like to improve the support it offers to sessional GPs across the county. If you work as a locum, salaried GP, out of hours GP or in any other sessional capacity and have not already shared your email address with the LMC but would like to do so, please contact Dr Dorothy King by emailing your details to dorothy.king@nhs.net
... We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes from all at Cheshire LMC
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There is evidence that GPs are unsure of how many veterans are registered with their practices and want more guidance on how to meet the health needs of this patient group.
This free RCGP, NHS England workshop and forum addresses the issue. 5 June, London.
Register here https://sforce.co/2Zh34LZ

‪‘GP numbers in first sustained drop for 50 years’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-4819143 8‬