FLOURISHING FOR OURSELVES & ACROSS GENERATIONS OF GPs
This RCGP SIG has been set up to support and inspire GPs who have a special interest in creativity, and who advocate for creative health within General Practice.
The aims of the GP SIG
Inspire whole person care through the arts
Reflect, connect, and flourish together
Embed creative enquiry across education, practice, policy, and research
RCGP Leadership Team: Clare Etherington, Nicola Gill, Catherine Jenkins, Linda Miller, Grace McGeoch, Rahhiel Riasat, Louise Younie (SIG Chair).
Interested in finding out more?
We are an inclusive group who welcome new members who share our passion or who are interested in finding out more. The GP SIG welcomes GP practice-wide membership from primary healthcare professionals. So, if you are a GP (including retired GP), representing a GP practice team, medical student or working in medical education, clinical practitioner, or have a background in GP training, and would be interested in getting involved in this group, please sign up here to be added to the GP SIG Membership and receive the network emails and information >>
We do monitor those signing up to the GP SIG, so the membership scope and remit stay relevant to GP professional practice.
Find out more about who is in our RCGP SIG with our GP SIG Network map (includes great examples of creative health in practice) >>
The GP SIG meets on a quarterly basis, but also communicates through a range of platforms including What’s App and newsletters. Also, the GP SIG holds an annual study day.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has supported the creation of this group and the National Centre for Creative Health provides the Secretariat for this GP Special Interest Group.
Image of the GP SIG at a Study Day in Autumn
Professor. Louise Younie
I am a GP and Professor of Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London, working where creativity meets care. For over two decades I’ve explored co-creation and creative enquiry as ways of seeing the Human Dimension more clearly, and of tending to the spaces in which people can flourish. As lead of the Creative Health SIG, I hope to kindle a quiet revolution—one that honours imagination, relationship, and the communities that make healing possible.
Grace McGeoch
I'm a GP in North London with an interest in Creative Health for the Bodymind. I run a singing group for wellbeing and practice breathwork. I believe in using creativity to make new meaning. Through creative practice we improve our relationship with ourselves and the wider world. I'm encouraging GPs to access their creativity by maintaining and promoting the GP SIG Creative Health Events calendar.
Nicola Gill
I've enjoyed a long career as a GP and now just work in medical education for NHSE. Over the last 25 years I have gained expertise in using art resources and creativity in teaching; I have seen how this can complement traditional medical education resources by amplifying the social, emotional and cognitive elements of learning. I run interactive seminars in sculpture parks, art galleries, teaching spaces and online for students, clinicians and arts professionals.I curate www.theartofmedicine.co.uk
The SIG has enabled me to connect with a wonderful tribe of like-minded professionals across the country. My role in the leadership group is to promote the use of art and creativity in medical education.
