The Running Mad Professor, alias Tom Solomon, 
the Chair of the Society's Professional
Advisory Panel, has just run the 2010 Virgin London Marathon
Tom completed the run in Four Hours, Twenty One Minutes and Nine Seconds – The Guinness
World Record for the Fastest Marathon Dressed as a Doctor. Tom said, "With nearly
nine minutes to spare, I don’t know why I was rushing! ..."
As a result he was able to promote the society in the press and on the One Show.
Congratulations and thank you!
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Royal College of General Practitioners launches UK-wide Manifesto for Social Care
RCGP has published this week its UK-wide Manifesto outlining some recommendation for the future of high quality care for patients.
This document makes proposals such as longer consultation times and longer GP training but also recommendations regarding smoking and alcohol misuse.
If you would like to read more about it, please follow the link below
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CQC publishes the state of health care and adult social care
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an independent regulator of all health and adult social care in England. CQC published its first annual report to Parliament on the state of health care & adult social care in England.
This report sets out how well health care and social care services in England performed in 2009 and the improvements leading up to 2009.
If you would like to read a summary of this report please follow the link Report Summary
NHS Constitution now backed by Law
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Last modified: March 2010