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The Future Practice - 25/04/2019
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GP Hot Topics - 27/04/2019
GP Hot Topics - Saturday 27th April 2019 09.30 - 13.00 Venue: Village Hotel, Waterfold Business Park, Rochdale Road, BL9 7BQ ...

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The Association for free-thinking family doctors safeguarding continuity of care

The Family Doctor Association leads the way to the future for grassroots primary care. With over 1000 members inspired for over 30 years. Continuity of care benefits patients, improves health outcomes and saves the NHS money. The member GP practices aim to provide high quality medical care while maintaining the traditional personal care of the family doctor in a friendly environment promoting health by education and preventative measures.

The FDA is a proactive, caring organsiation you can trust to support you.

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Why do GPs join the Family Doctor Association?

GPs like you enjoy education for them and their teams, support in a fast-changing GP landscape to cope with change, factsheets on, for example, QOF, revalidation, federation, hypertension, time-saving hot tips plus free advice to members on difficulties in their professional practice.

Membership gives you a sense of identity of the type of practice which melds the best of the older-fashioned patient-sensitive practice with the best of modern medicine. You can use the Association’s logo as branding to support your practice identity and cohesion. Show patients you are part of a national organisation dedicated to high quality care with continuity of care. Proper vocational medicine.

We also lobby at the highest level for the type of practice which offers continuity of care and personal medicine and for old-fashioned values in a modern context and the FDA is always at the top table to influence the direction of travel and work with other organisations in primary care.

Meet the National Officers

Dr Peter Swinyard

Chairman

Founder Partner, The Phoenix Surgery, Swindon Wiltshire. He trained in medicine...

Dr Claire Rushton

Vice Chairman

Claire is education lead for the Association and until recently was Senior Partner in...

Dr Rauf Kukaswadia

National Treasurer

Rauf is the National Treasurer of the Family Doctor Association. Most recently he su...

Moira Auchterlonie

Chief Executive Officer

Moira speaks fluent ‘GP’ having worked in primary care for two decades wi...

Dr Alan Dow

Honorary Secretary

Dr Alan Dow is a founder member of the Family Doctor Association. Alan has work...

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	@FamilyDoctorUK - RT @GPpracticeMGMT: Only one FTE GP produced for every three graduates trained, says NHS England #generalpractice https://t.co/Yl2jN9YzSv h…
	@FamilyDoctorUK - RT @TheDA_UK: "Survey of UK doctors, conducted by the BMA, found that most doctors (80%) were at a high or very high risk of burnout, with…