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LocumDeck facilitates the direct interaction between GP locums and practices, reducing the work of managing bookings, and making administrative hassles melt away. At full power, there's even the option of Instant Book.
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Standardised Practice Information Portal (Spip)
GP locums and practices can all be part of creating and sharing consulting room level information
Where LocumDeck helps get GP locums into practice, Spip welcomes and inducts them into practice’s information ecosystem.
Spip is a secure, online platform where practices can centrally store, update and then display all of their highly localised, practice-specific information to their staff and GPs at the point of need, equipping them to manage patients safely and efficiently.
Spip includes LocumPack, pulling together Spip’s 30 most-asked questions by GP locums so that each practice has its own essential locum induction information.
On our blog
You may have seen Victoria Derbyshire’s BBC show “Doctors’ mental health at tipping point”, a powerful piece on the scale of mental ill-health and high suicide rate in doctors and some of the ...
This is a new guideline from NICE on pancreatitis from Sep 2018. Most of it is aimed at secondary care, but there are a few things that are useful for us which I've outlined below. Advice to give pati...
This is a new guideline from NICE recommending that transurethral water vapour ablation can be used for treating lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men. It was published in Aug 18. This procedure ...
Are you confident that you can keep up to date with all the changes in tax law, practice, tax tribunals etc? It’s hard enough when it’s your full time job, so should we as sessional GPs be managin...
You have probably heard about this on the news, or seen it in other forms, but in case you have missed it, I felt it important to do an update. This information came out in Apr 18 from MHRA. Valproate...
“Is it worth being in the NHS Pension Scheme or should I be doing something else to fund my retirement?” With NHS Pension Scheme contributions as high as 14.5% of pay for some, penalties of 5% per...
This is a new guideline from NICE on the management of dementia. Most of this is not new, but there were a couple of things I wasn't fully aware of. I'll list the things that were new to me, then do a...
In the first of this three article series on errors and mistakes in general practice, we explored the psychological basis for errors and biases in human behaviour that lead to mistakes, and then went ...
My main pastimes —reading and on-demand television — have no doubt influenced my practice through the so-called “halo effect”. Paul Kalanithi’s book “When Breath becomes Air” forced me t...
In the news
Earlier this year, there was an outcry amongst GPs as the implications of annualisation rules introduced in the 2015 NHS pension scheme became clear. Find out about what the BMA are doing and how you ...
NHS Digital's plans for enabling every locum in England to have a work email address are coming together, and as part of that they need to do some in-vitro testing on 60 real living, breathing GP locu...
NASGP chairman Dr Richard Fieldhouse has today written to Dr Richard Vautrey, chairman of the BMA's General Practitioner's Committee, asking for reassurance that lessons have been learnt from the fail...AppraisalAid
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