Category: Blogs

GP locums and good communication

Dr James Thorpe, Senior Medical Educator and Dr Rachel Birch, Medicolegal Consultant at Medical Protection, explain why good communication is essential in ensuring patients receive safe care from GP locums

Sessional GPs subcommittee applies to split from BMA’s GPC

GP representing the UK’s salaried and locum workforce have applied to become an independent branch of practice, Pulse reports.

UK GPs organise for Ukraine

Doctors across the UK and the island of Ireland have spoken out and organised funding in solidarity with Ukraine. 

A doctor’s review of Netflix’s ‘My Love’

Judith Harvey speaks to Richard Fieldhouse about the seventh age of man and her latest article on the NASGP website.

The health of the nation: who’s keeping score?

GP partners now make up just over half of total number of UK GPs

The workforce also rose in size by 1% in the three months to September – a trend likely to be driven by the rise in the number of salaried GPs. 

GPs are still hard at work – whether the Government knows it or not

Jaws dropped when an MP blithely remarked that GPs could safely ‘recommence’ face-to-face services in a ‘regular’ manner in Parliament the other day, Dr Richard Fieldhouse writes.

GP locums ‘sucked up’ by private health amidst CCAS problems, session cancellations

NASGP chair Dr Richard Fieldhouse told GPonline that private firms had had better access to GP locums during the pandemic after many locums had sessions cancelled at short notice.

Gauging stress before the crash

New health service for GPs with mental health problems

Putting it off today

Letting go

New skills for general practice: Setting boundaries

Career planning: less stick, more carrot

How to approach a career re-evaluation

Career tip that is not a career tip but which is in fact a career tip

Listening Land

The contingency career

Wishing you a Wet Christmas

Happy Christmas Two Loo!