ABSTRACT
The role as a GP with a special interest The NHS Plans for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland identified the need to create a new role for GPs, called a practitioner with special clinical interest (GPwSI).1 The Department of Health commissioned the RCGP to identify the skills, knowledge and experience required for practitioners to be competent to work in this position.2 The RCGP drew heavily on work produced by the RCGP National Experts’ Group in Drug Training, a group that has been instrumental in developing the training for GPwSIs in drug misuse. A GPwSI
will be expected to act as an interim level of expertise, support and advice for local colleagues and the PCO.
