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Women's Health Forum - 01/09/2018
Women's Health Forum - Saturday 1st September 2018 09.00 - 13.00 Venue: Norton Grange Hotel, Manchester Road, Rochdale, OL11 2XZ BOO...

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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.

Latest News

'GPs should be "pleased" when small practices close.'
FDA Chairman has spoken today with Dr Arvind Madan following his reported c...

Evidence that continuity of care is a matter of life and death
VoxDocs Release from the Family Doctor Association 29.06.18 Research shows...

Practice managers survey on leadership challenges
Just how hard is it juggling the day job and patient demands, staff demands...

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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 works in a two-partner practice in D...

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...

Video Archive

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	@FamilyDoctorUK - RT @BIDAUK: Free conference organised by Dr Vinod Gadiyar - Good mix of clinical and non clinical subjects including discussion of #bawagar…
	@FamilyDoctorUK - RT @jkaffash: My (almost certainly final) take on the Madan saga - How NHS managers need to start trusting GPs https://t.co/U7jR7YKmFE