TY - JOUR T1 - Better for us all — recent learning on how the Royal College of General Practitioners can reduce racism JF - BJGP Open JO - BJGP Open DO - 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101150 VL - 4 IS - 5 SP - bjgpopen20X101150 AU - Amanda Howe AU - Martin Marshall AU - Valerie Vaughan-Dick Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://bjgpopen.org/content/4/5/bjgpopen20X101150.abstract N2 - The charitable mission of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is to ’encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in general medical practice‘, with the implication that this is better for the patients we serve, and for the health of the nation. Within this, there are multiple levels of action typical of professional medical colleges: the curriculum and examination for speciality qualification, ongoing professional development opportunities, guidance on good practice and the latest evidence, membership support, advocacy on behalf of GPs, and many other domains. The College, with its more than 54 000 members, has a wonderfully diverse membership with many different backgrounds, working contexts, and special interests. As a crosscutting effort to ensure we are effectively improving our aim to be an inclusive and diverse organisation in all aspects, we have been updating our Equality Diversity and Inclusivity strategy. We want to embed best organisational practice on an ongoing basis, including when managing resources and staff, as well as responding to members’ needs.It was in this context that the RCGP had been working with members from Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic groups (‘BAME’) to develop relevant actions, motivated in part by some findings from the President’s Listening Exercise conducted during 2018–2019. Members from non-White ethnic backgrounds had raised issues of lack of representation, and the BMA special issue on Racismin … ER -