GPs

Transforming Services I received some literature and patient information posters from the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) last week, asking Practices to support and highlight their ‘Put patients first: Back…

Bids for Funding Dr Mike Bewick, GP and Deputy Medical Director for NHS England, has said NHS England is expecting many practices to apply for grants once the round of…

Should this be expected? I was shocked and appalled to hear that a man had attacked and stabbed a GP in the neck this week. Fortunately the GP has been…

What is Clinical Governance? Clinical governance can be defined as a framework through which UK National Health Service (NHS) organisations and their staff are accountable for continuously improving the quality…

A radical agreement In a Pulse article last week some GPs in the South West of England were told to stop doing Quality & Outcomes Framework (QOF) and focus on…

Abolition of GP Practice boundaries At a presentation of the new GP contract for 2014/2015, it was announced that practice boundaries would be abolished in October 2014 to offer improved…

What’s new? The way in which we collect patient information has moved on from paper records to a new era that some are finding hard to come to terms with,…

What’s the problem? Now all the Christmas festivities are over there’s the ever familiar rush to book appointments with a GP or Nurse! However, the Royal College of General Practitioners…