The Annual Edith Pechey Lecture

The School of Medicine and the Leeds Medico-Chirurgical Society welcome you to attend the 2022 Edith Pechey lecture: “30 years in General Practice: from cottage industry to digital revolution”

Guest Speaker: Professor Dame Clare Gerada, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Co-chairs: Prof Suzanne Richards, Professor of Primary Care Research

Dr Andrew Mooney, President of Leeds Med Chi

Attendees can join the lecture in person or view the live-stream online. Please order a free ticket for your preferred option so that we can manage attendee numbers.

In person venue: Medical Lecture Theatre, Worsley Building, Clarendon Way, Leeds LS2 9LU

Online: The link to join will be shared in advance of the event.

Dame Clare Gerada is an outstanding advocate for general practice. She practised as a principal in London from 1991 until last year and has written movingly about how general practice has gone wrong and how it can be fixed. She has a special interest in psychiatry and addiction services. In 2019 she established the Primary Care Gambling Service to improve treatment to people with gambling problems. She is now Chair of Doctors in Distress, which aims to reduce suicides amongst doctors and other health care workers.

Edith Pechey was one of the “Edinburgh Seven”, the first female undergraduate medical students at any British university. After studying in Edinburgh she graduated MD in Bern in 1877, qualified in Dublin and came to Leeds, where she was popular as a GP and lecturer. In 1883 she travelled to Mumbai where she set up a women’s and children’s hospital. She returned to England in 1903 and continued to campaign for women’s suffrage.

Leeds Med-Chi is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, having been founded in 1872 as a meeting point for GPs and hospital consultants. It is now a friendly group of doctors from general practice and all specialties, and professions allied to medicine. The Society organises meetings and social events and is keen to recruit new members, particularly from general practice. We all need a place where we can learn, unwind and support each other.