Dr David Hogg, NHS Ayrshire & Arran Dr Grecy Bell, NHS Dumfries & Galloway Dr Emma Watson, NES Dr Michelle Watts, NHS Tayside Frances Elliot, NHS Fife Dr Annabel Howell, NHS Borders Dr Paul Davidson, NHS Highland Dr Roger Diggle, NHS Shetland Dr Annabel Ross, NHS Grampian Maureen Firth, NHS..Read More

Invitations to use Slack collaboration software are made to stakeholders from the Boards and other organisations that have participated so far. These include: Western Isles GP Medical Director Western Isles Workforce Planning Officer Western Isles Primary Care Manager Western Isles Primary Care Clinical Lead Orkney GP Clinical Lead Shetland Primary..Read More

Primary Care Leads and Managers are informed by email that the Scottish Government invite applications to a fund established to support the recruitment, retention and return of GPs to Scotland. £1 million is available each year for 2016-17 and 2017-18. Boards are invited to apply for funding.

Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care announces that the Scottish Government intends to increase GP workforce numbers by 800 over the next decade.

RCGP Scottish Council issue a GP Workforce paper which includes their assessment that by 2021 Scotland will face a projected shortfall of 856 WTE GPs.

RCGP Scotland Rural Strategy Group publish ‘Being Rural: exploring sustainable solutions for remote and rural healthcare‘ policy paper. Executive summary Remote and rural healthcare in Scotland has reached a crisis with problems with recruitment and retention for GP practices from Stranraer in Wigtownshire to Whalsay in the Shetland Islands. The..Read More

The Scottish Government publish Under Graduate Medical Education in Scotland The report, authored by Prof John Gillies,  recommends how undergraduate medical education in Scotland can be increased by enabling more General Practice based teaching in Primary Care.

The Scottish Government publish the National Health and Social Care Workforce Plan – Part 3 which is about improving workforce planning for primary care in Scotland.

The Scottish Government publish the National Health and Social Care Workforce Plan – Part 2 which sets out seven recommendations with the aim to begin a process that will improve national and local workforce planning for social care in Scotland to help ensure we get the right people into the..Read More

The Scottish Government publish the National Health and Social Care Workforce Plan – Part 1 which is a framework for improving workforce planning across NHSScotland, including the establishment of a National Workforce Planning Group.