Organisations
Representative
British Medical Association
General Medical Council
General Chiropractic Council
Exists to protect patients, set high standards and promote the profession. it offers advice on how to find a chiropractor
General Practitioners Committee
The new website gives you access to information about committee activities, key contact numbers and a quick route to our most popular guidance notes. The site has links to BMA web pages and to other health service web sites.
The GPC is a BMA committee with authority to deal with all matters affecting NHS GPs. It represents all doctors in general practice, whether they are independent contractors or salaried, principals or non-principals, working under Part II or Part I of the NHS Acts and whether or not they are a member of the BMA.
The committee is recognised as the sole negotiating body for general practice by the Department of Health and is represented in negotiations with ministers and civil servants by a team of five GPs who draw upon their day-to-day experience of general practice and are assisted by full-time expert advisers. The team is supplemented by other GPC members and legal, accountancy and other specialist advice as and when necessary.
The GPC has 82 members, of whom 44 are directly elected representatives of regional constituencies. It meets monthly and much of its work is done by subcommittees and task groups. It is represented on most national bodies concerned with health, providing an essential medical input. The Welsh and Scottish GPCs are subcommittees of the national GPC, but have autonomy on NHS matters exclusive to their countries. The Northern Ireland GPC is autonomous of the GPC but has close working relations with it.
The GPC's policy-making procedures operate on an annual cycle. It sends all GPs a report of its work every March. Individual GPs can influence policy through their LMCs which consider the report and submit motions to the annual conference of LMC representatives held in June. This conference, comprising more than 300 GPs appointed by LMCs, is the profession's principal policy-making body. Those motions which are approved by conference are referred to the GPC to implement. This democratic process gives credibility to the GPC's day-to-day activities as the representative voice of all NHS GPs.
Every part of the UK has at least one spokesperson on the GPC; a doctor working in practice who can represent its problems and express its views on issues affecting negotiations for GPs as a whole.
Foundation for Intergrated Medicine
Medical Women's Federation
National Association of GP Co-operatives
National Association of Non-Principals
National Association of Primary Care
Royal Colleges
Educational
Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice
Government & NHS
Audit Commission
The Audit Commission appoints auditors to local authorities and NHS bodies in England and Wales, and helps to bring about improvements in economy, efficiency and effectiveness through value for money studies and the audit process.
Commission for Health Improvement
Department of Health
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The organisation advising the Department of Health on drugs and treatment.
NHS Direct Online
The organisation advising the Department of Health on drugs and treatment.
Public Health Laboratory Service
Independent
Doctor Patient Partnership
The Doctor Patient Partnership is a registered charity which encourages effective communication between patients and healthcare professionals, promotes the responsible use of NHS services and offers practical advice on self-medication.
National Association of Primary Care
NHS Alliance
Primary Care Network
Making your PCG work - clinical governance, investment plans
Medico-Legal
Medical Defence Organisations
Support & Interest Groups