{"id":5892,"date":"2018-11-24T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T10:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixedabilitysports.org\/imas-champion-awarded-royal-college-of-general-practitioners-presidents-medal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:42:29","slug":"imas-champion-awarded-royal-college-of-general-practitioners-presidents-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixedabilitysports.org\/es\/imas-champion-awarded-royal-college-of-general-practitioners-presidents-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"IMAS Champion awarded Royal College of General Practitioners President\u2019s Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">IMAS celebrates the award of the Royal College of General Practitioners President\u2019s Medal to Mixed Ability Health Champion Dr Mark Purvis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">The Royal College of General Practice is the professional membership body for GPs in the UK. Its purpose is to encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in general medical practice<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">The President, Professor Mayur Lakhani CBE FRCP PRCGP SFFMLM, presented the Medal to Mark at the RCGP Annual General Meeting in London Friday 23rd November 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">The medal is awarded to a Member or Fellow who has done most to promote the aims and objectives of the College and who has not normally achieved recognition for that contribution from the College. (awaiting citation)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Dr Mark Purvis was an NHS GP in Bradford for thirty years. In addition, Mark worked as Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education for Health Education England, training the NHS workforce, with responsibilities for primary care in Yorkshire and the Humber.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Mark has long been a champion of Mixed Ability sports, recognising the potential for inclusion sports to change the lives of individuals, build health assets in local communities and change the way that society thinks about inclusion resulting in benefits for health and wellbeing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Find out more about mixed ability sports by reading and signing our manifesto.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000; min-height: 13.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-stretch: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixedabilitysports.org\/es\/el-manifiesto-mixed-ability\/\">https:\/\/www.mixedabilitysports.org\/mixed-ability-manifesto\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMAS celebrates the award of the Royal College of General Practitioners President\u2019s Medal to Mixed Ability Health Champion Dr Mark Purvis. \u00a0 The Royal College of General Practice is the professional membership body for GPs in the UK. 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