RCGP launches ideas for improving patient care

Hard-pressed GPs who have bright ideas for improving patient care can apply to become ‘Innovation Fellows’ in a recent initiative launched by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in collaboration with the Peter Sowerby Foundation.  The RCGP CIRC Sowerby Innovation Fellows programme has been set up to support time-poor GPs who are keen to be innovative but cannot take their ideas forward because they are trying to cope with the dual pressures of ever-increasing workloads and funding shortages. The programme will run for three years from 2014. Five GPs will be selected each year to develop and implement their ideas,