RCGP chair steps down from position

As reported by the RCGP, on stepping down Professor Martin Marshall said the role of the GP will be ‘manageable’ again

Speaking to the College’s Annual General meeting, he reflected on his experience of leading the RCGP through the turbulence of the pandemic. He said that the College would continue its work to make the job of being a GP ‘manageable’ again and to ‘return to a time when GPs can deliver the best quality, personalised care that our patients need without a detrimental impact on our own health and wellbeing’.

With the College set to mark its 70th anniversary this Saturday (19 November), he said the College’s mission remained the same as in 1952: to deliver compassionate care with knowledge. 

You can read the speech in full below.

Professor Marshall is succeeded by Professor Kamila Hawthorne, who works as a GP in the Welsh valleys, and is the first South Asian female Chair of the College.