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NZRGPN Press Release: Peter Snow Memorial Award 2011
NZRGPN Press Release: Peter Snow Memorial Award 2011
The recipient of the 2011 Peter Snow Memorial Award is West Coast (South Island) GP Martin London.
The accolade was announced at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network’s annual conference in Wellington last weekend (March 17-20).
Dr London was nominated under the “Innovation or Service” category which recognises his “outstanding service to rural general practice and to rural communities for many years, and his endless enthusiasm and drive to help retention and recruitment of rural health professionals”.
Martin is the South Island representative on the NZRGPN Board and has been a rural GP since 1983 and a salaried practitioner since 2005.
He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago for the Rural Medical Immersion Programme, convener and founding member of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (1990) and intermittent board member since that time.
Martin is on the Rural Premium Review Panel and Chair of the Network’s Membership Committee. He pioneered the original rural GP locum service via the Centre for Rural Health (Christchurch) in 1996.
Martin is also on the reference group for Health Workforce New Zealand’s review of Training for General Practice.
Martin holds a MB ChB (Bristol 1977), a Dip.Obst. (Otago) and is a Fellow of RNZCGP.
About the award
The Peter Snow Memorial Award
was set up to honour the life and work of Dr Peter Snow who
passed away in March 2006. Dr Snow was a rural general
practitioner based in Tapanui.
As well as caring for his
patients Peter was Past-President of the Royal New Zealand
College of General Practitioners and was a member of the
Otago Hospital Board and District Health Board. He was
enthusiastic and active in seeking knowledge to improve the
health and safety of rural communities. His work contributed
to the identification of the chronic fatigue syndrome and he
was influential in raising safety awareness on issues
related to farming
accidents.
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