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16th
December 2006
Merry Christmas,
everyone! We're
continuing our tradition
this year of donating
money to overseas
charity rather than
sending cards to our
Sessional GP Group
Leaders around the UK.
In previous years we've
bought a tent or goats
from
Worldvision, so this year we've
gone for 2 rams and 2
ewes for villagers
living in Senegal.
So, a Merry to all
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- Richard Sturge reports from Himalaya
- Another Money Matters column from Liz
Densley, specialist medical accountant.
- More Risk Management issues for Sessional
GPs from Annmarie McTigue of the MPS - this time on
handling medical questions on the school run.
- Interview with Rowena Grenfell, sessional
GP group leader form Morecambe Bay
- A short piece by Judith Harvey after
falling off a horse.
- A 'round-up' of Sessional GP Groups
across the UK.
- Plus much more!
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25th November 2006
GPs working in
Northern Ireland are now
eligible to join the NHS pension
scheme and to have this backdated to
1 April 2001. In addition, GPs who
were already scheme members are
allowed to ‘pension’ their GP locum
earnings from 1 April 2002
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23rd
November 2006
GP/Medeconomics
have launched an
on-line survey on GP
locum rates - much
easier to complete than
last year's survey.
Obviously, the more
locums responding' the
more valid the results
are likely to be!
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4th
November 2006
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23rd
October 2006
How
should a Freelance GP
cancel a session with a
practice? See our FAQ
section
[more...]
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19th
October 2006
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Our October - November 2006 edition of
The Sessional GP is
now available digitally, and will be printed onto pulped wood
sometime in the next day or two. This edition is one of our best
so far:
- A beautifully written article by Noel
Thomas on his adventures in Pakistan
- Interview with Jean Ker, NASGP's RCGP
observer
- A review of the Pearl Medical Blackberry
gizmo
- A 'round-up' of Sessional GP Groups
across the UK
- A great article from MPS about Data
Protection
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18th October 2006
A small update to our
Freelance GP Booking form from a new
member-to-be
[more...]
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12th October 2006
We have now completed our
consultation on the Chief Medical Officer's
report 'Good Doctors, Safer Patients' and
will be sending this in time for the final
closing date of 10th November 2006. You can
read our report in full
[here...]
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11th September 2006
EMIS have developed a new
training package exclusively for Freelance
GPs
[more...]
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- Judith Cook's experience of working in
Project: London.
- Another Money Matters column from Liz
Densley, specialist medical accountant.
- More Risk Management issues for Sessional
GPs from Annmarie McTigue of the MPS - this time on
complaints involving colleagues.
- Interview with Peter Taylor, our new
NASGP council member.
- A short piece on one of Goya's paintings.
- A 'round-up' of Sessional GP Groups
across the UK.
- Yet another specially commissioned artwork from our
resident designer (a first for any medical organisation!).
- Plus much more!
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27th July 2006
A new Sessional GP
Group "Haverstock Non-Principals
Group" is added to our listing
[more...]
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26th July 2006
We met up with the
GMC as planned last week to discuss
our plans for revalidating Sessional
GPs
[more...]
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11th July 2006
We're meeting the
General Medical Council next Friday
21st July with the GPC Sessional GP
Sub-Committee to talk about ways of
enabling Freelance GPs to work
within the GMC's 'approved working
environments'. We've created a new
document, and will be grateful for
any comments or suggestions from our
members that will help us to get our
message across
[more...]
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13th
June 2006
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Our June - July 2006 edition of
The Sessional GP is
now with the envelope-stuffing gnomes and will be with members next week.
Alternatively you can read it a week in advance on-line.
Articles include:
- Sarah White's adventures as a GP working
in aviation medicine.
- Interview with Vik Mohan, Associate
for GP Postgraduate Education for the South West Peninsula
Deanery.
- A review of Suburban Shaman: Tales From
Medicine's Frontline by Judith Harvey.
- A 'round-up' of Sessional GP Groups
across the UK
- Plus much more!
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12th June 2006
NASGP affiliate
Freelance GP Scheme - aFGP
- consultation launched
[More...]
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| 10th June 2006
So you want to be a
Salaried GP? Excellent new article
added by NASGP Council member Judith
Harvey
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9th June 2006
We've added a
'Feedback Form' section to our CPD
area.
[More...]
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8th June 2006
Do Freelance GPs need
to register for VAT? We've added
this answer to our Frequently Asked
Questions.
[More...]
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6th June 2006
We are
delighted to welcome two new
members to our council. The
first is Jean Ker as
a representative from the
RCGP. Jean is currently the
Director of the Clinical
Skills Centre at the
University of Dundee and
also works 2 sessions a week
in General Practice in
Dundee. Jean’s main interest
has been around patient
safety, reflective practice
and developing clinical
skills standards. Our second
addition is Peter Taylor
from Shrewsbury, who has
been elected unopposed
through our membership
ballot. Peter has worked as
a partner for 4 years,
followed by four years as a
full-time locum and now
works in a part-time
salaried post, continuing to
work his remaining sessions
as a locum. Peter feels
that, despite being better
off than 10 years ago, we’re
still "undervalued, treated
inequitably and our needs
ignored or dealt with as
afterthoughts. We need a
strong, active national body
that will work closely with
the GPC Sessional GP
Subcommittee, but which can
speak and campaign for us
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1st June 2006
Updated IT
section to include TPP
SystemOne
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15th May 2006
Updated
Frequently Asked Questions
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11th May 2006
We have been
working with the MPS
recently to update our
'complaints' document, and
we're now proud to publish
this
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26th April 2006
The latest
BNF is now arriving. If
you're a Freelance GP and
NASGP member in England,
yours will be arriving
automatically any day now.
Otherwise, the authority
responsible for your
Performers list will be
organising distribution.
[BNF
Frequently Asked Questions] |
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21st April 2006
There are two
vacancies for NASGP council
members, commencing in
October 2006 for 3 years.
Council members are asked to
attend up to 2 midweek
meetings in London per year,
with travel expenses and
honoraria. Other business is
generally performed via
email.
Any Sessional GP member of
the NASGP may propose
another Sessional GP member
for election to one of these
2 seats. A web-based ballot
will take place in June if
the number of nominations
exceeds the number of seats.
The results will be declared
in the August-September
edition of The Sessional GP.
Nomination forms are
available here
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applications for nomination
is May 30th 2006.
NB in the event of a ballot,
members will be notified by
email – if you did not
receive an email
notification by the end of
today's date from the NASGP
then please update your
email address
here.
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19th
April 2006
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Our April - May 2006 edition of
The Sessional GP is
now at the printers and will be with members next week.
Alternatively you can read it a week in advance on-line.
Articles include:
- Alex van Tulleken's experiences working in
Sudan.
- Interview with Rebecca Viney, Associate
Director of Sessional GPs at the London Deanery.
- "Twinn Speaks" - our regular column on
the doctors.net.uk discussion forum
- A review of Robbie Coull's 'The Locum
Handbook'.
- A 'round-up' of Sessional GP Groups
across the UK
- Plus much more!
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30th March 2006
The BMA are calling for
papers for "Having It All? CPD and The
Sessional GP". The conference itself will
take place Friday 6th October 2006, and the
deadline for papers is 12th May 2006.
- "Having It All? CPD and The
Sessional GP"
A recipe for this cake is available
from the BMA on request. Yum. |
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14th March 2006
The RCGP North & West London
Faculty held a one day conference in October
2005 entitled "Understanding Sessional
General Practitioners"
[more...]
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9th March 2006
The NHS
Pensions Agency have just
published their latest
Technical Newsletter,
clarifying several points
relating to Freelance GPs
and Out of Hours work
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17th February 2006
If you are a
Sessional GP working in the
South West of England, then
you are invited to the
South West Peninsula
Deanery Sessional GP
Conference on Thursday
30th March 2006.
-
invitation
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programme
Contact
Vik Mohan for more details.
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- Karen Bevan-Mogg's experiences working
with MSF in Uganda.
- A new Money Matters column from Liz
Densley, specialist medical accountant.
- More Risk Management issues for Sessional
GPs from Annmarie McTigue of the MPS.
- Interview with Jane Harrison, sessional
GP on secondment to the CMO of the Welsh Assembly
Government.
- "Twinn Speaks" - our regular column on
the doctors.net.uk discussion forum
- A short history of ex-medical student
Hector Berlioz.
- A 'round-up' of Sessional GP Groups
across the UK.
- Specially commissioned artwork from our
resident designer (a first for any medical organisation!).
- Plus much more!
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30th
January 2006
Added a new
Risk Management section to
the
Frequently Asked Questions
section.
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26th
January 2006
The results
of the Medeconomics survey
were published earlier this
month, and we now have a pdf
copy
[more...]
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25th
January 2006
If you've
ever done any
freelance general practice work, you
may have heard rumours that PCTs
would stop paying the employers
contribution as from this April
(basically, the same rumours as last
year!) with the onus instead being
on the freelance GP's employing
practice.
Fortunately, it is
just a rumour
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11th
January 2006
Representatives from
the NASGP met last month with the
General Medical Council to question
them on their proposals relating to
'GMC approved environments'. See
their reply and yesterday's press
release
[more...]
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