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Why aren’t eligible patients having their flu jab sooner? Each year from October, GP practices offer eligible patients a flu jab in order to minimise the spread and impact of…

Magazines in the waiting room I read recently that £12.6m worth of magazines get stolen every year from waiting rooms. I appreciate some patients wait longer than others to be…

The CQC rate Practices against particular population groups The CQC now inspects and rates practices against six population groups – older people, long term conditions, mothers babies and children, working…

Practice Managers face unprecedented pressures As Practice Managers we face unprecedented pressures from CQC inspections, active involvement with Clinical Commissioning Groups, constant changes to the GP contract and frequent employment…

What is Intelligent Monitoring? As part of their new inspection regime, the CQC published their Intelligent Monitoring report for GP practices across the country last month, understandably it has caused…

The CQC will rate against population groups The CQC intends to rate practices against six population groups – older people, long term conditions, mothers, babies and children, working age, people…

About Ebola Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a rare but severe infection caused by the Ebola virus. Since early this year there has been a large outbreak of Ebola virus…

Abolition of GP Practice boundaries £60 per home visit Back in January I blogged that, as part of the new GP contract for 2014/2015, practice boundaries would be abolished in…