Press Release 9 December 1998

New NASGP council

At its most recent council meeting, the NASGP welcomed it's new council members and officers.

Dr Richard Fieldhouse was re-elected as chair, with Dr Tina Ambury as deputy chair. Dr Peter Harvey was elected to the post of English secretary and Dr Tony Downes to Welsh secretary. Similar posts for Scotland and Northern Ireland remain vacant and council hopes to co-opt candidates to these posts soon. New council members Dr Anita Goraya and Dr Tara Watson are the new joint-treasurers.

Dr David Eastham, from Leeds, who during the 1980s, spent 9 years as a member of the GMSC (now GPC), serving on a variety of committees covering most of general practice and was also secretary and chairman of Leeds LMC, said “I believe my past experience is of value to non-principals - we are now a very significant part of general practice and the work already done by the NASGP in achieving recognition of that fact must be built upon - we must be properly represented at all levels of administration and the BMA structure.

Dr Goraya, a GP in North London who believes passionately in the NHS core values of equality and equity - both for patients and doctors., said " “Where isolation and disparity were once the norm, the NASGP has rapidly become a unifying body and a potent voice for the needs and aspirations of non-principals”.

Dr Watson, a mother of 3 who works as a locum GP in Southampton, said "I have a keen interest in non-principal affairs at a national level and am particularly keen to help represent non-principals who are working parents.

Further details are available on our website at
http://www.nasgp.org.uk