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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
The use of humour is believed to have several positive psychological and physiological effects on health. Many doctors and patients believe it has a place in the consultation. Dr Rachel Birch, medicol...
My last article looked at tax thresholds which can affect GPs. One of our readers pointed out that I had not included non-tax thresholds which will also affect ‘take home’ income, so this month Iâ...
Did you know that captopril was derived from the venom of the deadly Brazilian pit viper? Since it went on the market in 1981 captopril and its successor ACE inhibitors have probably saved many more l...
Being a locum has many advantages: greater flexibility, autonomy and variety. But there are some disadvantages too: peaks and troughs in income, difficulties with getting a mortgage and uncertainty ab...
This is a new guideline from RCOG on Bladder Pain Syndrome, which used to be called Interstitial Cystitis, among other things. As this is a new guideline and it is a common problem (affecting up to 6%...
This summary is based on 3 recent NICE guidelines:Bisphosphonates in people for primary or secondary prevention. Raloxifene for primary prevention. Basically it isn't advised. Raloxifene and teripar...
This is a new guideline from NICE on managing hearing loss and ear wax, published in June 2018. Exciting? Well, there are a couple of good bits in here, especially given how common a problem this is. ...
In the first part 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 occurring....
In our 102nd edition of the Sessional GP Magazine, Richard carries on with the second part in his series on errors and bias, Louise reviews Nice's latest on hearing loss and ear wax, Judith on why med...
 In the news
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...
LocumDeck's NHS pension forms now have a paperless option, so with the new tax year about to begin, now would be the perfect time to start using its many features. LocumDeck comes as part of NASGP mem...AppraisalAid
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