RCGP's Victoria Tzortziou Brown on how continuity can boost access; and are GPs following heart failure referral guidance?
About this episode
Pulse editor Sofia Lind interviews Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown about the RCGP's role and the new GP contract consultations.
In our first 'Big Interview' of the year, Pulse editor Sofia Lind speaks to the new chair of the RCGP, Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown, to discuss the role of the college in a particularly tumultuous time for the profession. The pair discuss the RCGP's position and approach to new-look GP contract consultations - in which the college is now involved alongside other stakeholders, as revealed exclusively by Pulse last year. Professor Tzortziou Brown reflects on how the contract needs to chan...
Topics covered
- continuity of care
- GP contract
- heart failure referral guidance
Keywords
- RCGP
- GP profession
- healthcare access
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