The Scottish Government publish Shaping the Future Together: Remote and Rural General Practice Working Group. The report of the first year of work of the Remote and Rural General Practice Working Group Chaired by Sir Lewis Ritchie.

The Scottish School of Primary Care (SSPC) publish Remote and rural General Practice in Scotland: descriptors and challenges The briefing paper for GP clusters explores some of the descriptors and gives examples of the day to day practice of GPs working in remote and rural practices at a time of..Read More

‘Being Here’ publish their project evaluation report. The ‘Being Here’ project was an initiative to build the sustainability of health and care services in remote and rural areas by developing and testing new delivery models for service provision in Scotland. The Project was managed by NHS Highland and funded by..Read More

A bid to the Scottish Government’s GP Recruitment and Retention fund is submitted by the North of Scotland Planning Group (NoSPG) on behalf of collaborators. The document includes the aims, objects and anticipated benefits.

The report presents results from the 2015 National Primary Care Workforce Survey. The survey is an important source of information to support workforce planning for primary medical services. It was initially developed as a means of addressing some of the gaps in the routinely available information about GPs and other..Read More

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) publish ‘Supporting Remote and Rural Healthcare‘

A new GP contract was formally accepted by the profession on 18th January 2018. The agreement, jointly designed and agreed between the Scottish Government and the British Medical Association (BMA), and is anticipated to bring the biggest reform of GP services to Scotland in over a decade.

Meeting between Ian Blair, SRMC Project Manager and Martine Scott, Being Here Programme Manager and Anna Skene, Northern Peripheries (Making it Work) Project Manager to establish communication and explore area for learning and collaboration.

Martine Scott, NHS Highland joins the SRMC as Programme Manager following on from her role as ‘Being Here’ Programme Manager.

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