Chair Reports -
December 2025
From the Chair...
A Year of Progress, Partnership and New Beginnings
As this year draws to a close, we are proud to share that we have successfully secured our AGPT grant for a further five years. This achievement provides stability and ensures that our work advocating for respect, remuneration, and recognition of supervision – both educational and clinical – can continue with strength and purpose.
Our 2024-2025 Annual Report is now available, capturing the many ways we have sought to add value to both our members’ experience and learning, as well as to the broader GP training landscape. It reflects the collective efforts of our community and the impact of our shared vision.
At our final Board meeting of the year, we welcomed Dr Dana Fitzsimmons as the newest member of the GPSA Board. I am also taking this opportunity to thank you all for giving me this opportunity to serve as Chair for the last 2 years and to announce that I will be handing over the reins of the Chair role to Dr Canice Baker, who will be supported by Dr Nick Tellis as Deputy Chair. Their leadership will guide GPSA into its next chapter with renewed energy and insight.
As we move into the festive season, I encourage each of you to take the opportunity to slow the pace, pause, and acknowledge the accomplishments of this year. Let us savour the closing of one chapter as it evolves into the beginning of another.
In the spirit of renewal, I leave you with this reminder and a final movie quote from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Gandalf: “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Looking ahead, the Board will gather in the new year for strategic planning, and we invite you to contribute your suggestions and reflections. Your input is vital in shaping the direction GPSA sets for itself, ensuring that our advocacy and resources remain aligned with the needs of supervisors, practice managers and training sites as well as best practice principles in supervision. May our collective efforts continue to echo in the lives of those we support and train.
Dr Srishti Dutta
Chair
Date reviewed: 08 December 2025
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