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First Council today: I raised the issues of: pharma sponsorship of the next RCGP conference The new campaign – we have to be clear that this is about funding for general practice, for more doctors and nurses and NOT for increasing GP salaries That the issue about informed consent over data sharing should be further […]

Roger Goss, Radio 5 live, 7 10 am, 13/11/13. “The real strategy you need  here is to make primary care effective. It’s outrageous that so many surgeries operate on the basis of ordinary office hours. And even worse, because about half of GPs are women, they only want to work Monday and Wednesday afternoons, and […]

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