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East Lancashire GP Hot Topics - 02/09/2017
GP Hot Topics - Saturday 2nd September 2017 09.30 - 13.00 Venue: Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Blackburn Road, Clayton le Moors, BB5 5JP BOOK O...

Pulse Learning Seminar Women's Health - 13/09/2017
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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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DoLS change welcomed as it may mean less unnecessary stress for grieving families
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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

Peter was elected National Chairman in 2009. Under his leadership the Association ha...

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...

Dr Michael Taylor

National Executive Team

I qualified at Edinburgh and returned as intended to be a GP in my home area. O...

Moira Auchterlonie

Chief Executive Officer

With over 15 years’ primary care experience, degrees in law, leadership and eco...

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