Chair’s Report for RGPAS AGM – held on Friday 9th November 2018 Welcome to our annual conference! As ever, we are delighted to see RGPAS members congregate in Inverness again this year, and we hope that our programme is providing ample opportunity to access relevant clinical...
The agreement of the new Scottish GP contract has triggered real concerns about just how seriously the challenges facing Scotland's rural communities are being considered by our professional and political leaders - and how rural NHS services are being considered in the context of the...
The Scottish Rural Medicine Collaborative (SRMC) has just released its latest newsletter. You can read it here...
This year's annual RGPAS conference will take place on 2-4 November 2017 at the Craigmonie Hotel in Inverness, and details are now available on RuralGP.com. Conference Theme: Realising Realistic Rural Medicine Covering a wide range of topics, from clinical updates and emergency care, to managing family life...
At our #RGPAS16 conference we were pleased to welcome the GP IT Reprovisioning team to present an update and discuss challenges of IT implementation in Scottish rural practice. The GP IT Reprovisioning Team have provided us with the following updated presentation. Please feel free to download...
Today we launch the new RGPAS website - redesigned with the aim of providing an improved showcase of Scottish rural general practice, as well as being a solid platform from which to keep our members, and others interested in Scottish rural GP - informed. Please take...
Applications are invited for a number of scholarships made available by The Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS). Funded by the RGPAS Educational Trust the scholarship scheme aims to: Encourage and enable Scottish students to experience a Rural GP elective in Scotland, and Support members of...
The feedback report for students (many of whom received RGPAS Conference scholarships, all of whom accessed significantly discounted tickets) is now available. Once again, the feedback seems to be very positive, with strong indications that student attendance at the conference enabled new opportunities to be found,...
Fascia iliaca hip nerve blocks are increasingly recognised as offering very effective analgesia for fractured hips - both prehospitally, as well as community hospitals and centres of expertise. Source: Mackinnon Rural General Hospital, Broadford, Skye Main Contact: Dr Alistair Innes, Rural Practitioner Current at: December 2016 Acknowledgements: Thanks to Dr Innes who has kindly made...
Rural practice is ripe for some great research opportunities. Encouraging and enabling quality research in remote and rural Scotland would bring a number of benefits, including recruitment & retention, and stronger evidence base for rural-proofing other interventions, and a useful perspective of 'generalist practice'. There's a...