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Mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation by healthcare professionals.

PCRTA serendipitous carrot masquerading as stick?

PARTY LINE: (Fenny Green & Nigel Mathers) High quality primary care research is undertaken in the practice setting, and the RCGP’s Research Group wishes to promote and encourage this. It evolved from the RCGP Research General Practice Awards. These were developed to demonstrate the need to make research infrastructure funding available to research -active practices to support the high quality r...

James Mackenzie Lecture 2013: the Tao of family medicine.

General practice faces the challenges of an increase in the prevalence of long-term conditions (LTCs) and multimorbidity, coupled with increasing demand and the need for more collaborative partnerships with patients. To address these challenges, I believe we need a fundamental change in our definitions of health and health care, the way we 'do' general practice, and a transformation in our rela...

Methadone maintenance treatment can be provided in a primary care setting without increasing methadone-related mortality: the Sheffield experience 1997-2000.

Methadone maintenance treatment has been shown in many studies to reduce mortality and morbidity among heroin users. However, there has been concern that widespread methadone prescribing will lead conversely to an increase in methadone-related deaths. This study in Sheffield shows no increase in methadone-related mortality over a two-year period, during which 400 untreated patients were recruit...

From Arcadia to Euston Square: a historical perspective on the RCGP's new headquarters.

ARCHITECTURAL INSPIRATION The building, whose external elevations are in a Greek Revival style, is generally agreed to be a major work by Arthur Beresford Pite (1861–1934). Pite was an exceptionally interesting figure, an educator as well as a practicing architect. He was Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art from 1900–1923. Although he worked elsewhere in a number of styles, he...