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What changed? Over 10 years ago most Practices were part of a local on-call doctors’ service which enabled patients to get through to a GP when their surgery was closed…

Federated Working As part of  group of Practice Managers in our local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) we are looking at working federately. There is an acceptance in General Practice that…

1. Clinical negligence covers NHS and privately funded hospitals Following a discussion at a recent meeting I thought I would write about Clinical Negligence. Negligence is the breach of a…

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…