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Dr Veena Aggarwal, RCGP South London Climate and Sustainability Lead, shares her frontline perspective on how air quality is affecting people in her community - particularly those living with conditions like asthma. 🎥 Watch her video to hear why GPs across the UK are calling…
🩺 Community health in action. This photo from the 1980s captures Doreen Vernon checking blood pressure during a Health Day event, with Pro Torkington looking on, a snapshot of local engagement and preventative care at its best. Events like these helped bridge the gap between…
As a part of South Asian Heritage Month, we highlight two objects on display in RCGP’s current Health Inequalities exhibition. These two breast softies were created by Nubian Skin in partnership with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. A breast softie is a lightweight fabric…
🎧 New GP+ Podcast: Minor Ops in General Practice From ingrown toenails to skin lesion removals - minor surgical procedures in primary care are improving access, cutting hospital wait times, and offering new opportunities for GPs. In this episode, Dr Pim Dhahan, a Birmingham GP…
How do language, legacy and lived experience shape life as a GP? For #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, Dr Zalan Alam shares a personal reflection on identity, Partition, and growing up as a third culture kid. Read his blog here. ⤵️ rcgp.org.uk/blog/route-to-… #SAHM2025 #RouteToRoots
🌍 “There’s a real opportunity for everyone to win if we can tackle air pollution.” Dr Andrew Dallas, RCGP North of Scotland Climate and Sustainability Lead, highlights the connection between air quality, respiratory health, and the environmental impact of inhalers, and how…
📢 What your College is doing for you On behalf of our members, in the past two weeks. ⬇️
‘Work Well scheme will only succeed if it is done in consultation with GPs’ Chair @KamilaRCGP responds to the roll out of the Work Well pilot scheme. Full statement on our website: rcgp.org.uk/news/work-well…
This morning Chair @KamilaRCGP appeared on @BBCr4today to discuss the Government’s Work Well scheme to get people back into work. Listen here: (1:34 minutes in) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
This morning Chair @KamilaRCGP appeared on @BBCr4today to discuss the Government’s Work Well scheme to get people back into work. Listen here: (1:34 minutes in) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
“We do have a sick nation, there’s no doubt” The NHS issued 11 million sick notes last year - double the number a decade ago. Professor Kamila Hawthorne, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, tells #R4Today that the amount of chronic illness they see has gone up dramatically.