Category: Career & wellbeing

Staying safe: easy steps to avert a personal crisis

Many of us will have experienced a time of emotional crisis. It could follow a break-up of a relationship, a bereavement, a traumatic event, financial worries or an adjustment to a big change.

Get strong, stay strong

Evidence suggests that there are strong associations in middle and older age between poor balance, poor strength or poor physical function and mortality, and that lower strength in late adolescence and early adulthood link with increased vascular risk in later life.

Wounded healers; what makes GPs so vulnerable to mental ill-health?

Doctors experience more mental ill-health and addiction than other professional groups, and there are higher rates of suicide in doctors than other professionals, especially in young women, who are two to four times more likely to kill themselves than other women.

Are you another victim of the attention economy?

Gauging stress before the crash

The war on GP workload

The case for 
GP locum chambers

There are many benefits to being part of a chambers if you are a GP locum, but what can you do if there is no chambers in your local area? Dr Richard Fieldhouse provides some advice.

How many GP locums work in the UK? Challenges for NHS GP statistics

Setting seismic career goals

Three good things

Keep on spinning – the journey to wellbeing

How to set SMART career goals

Start collecting evidence for NHS GP appraisal

So much of what we do can count towards our GP NHS appraisal, but how do we capture it all? This is a particular problem area for GP locums.

Getting a good nights sleep

Why set career goals?

Could physical activity be
 our miracle cure?

Setting career goals as a sessional GP

New health service for GPs with mental health problems

Putting it off today

Brownie points

Letting go

New skills for general practice: Handling burnout

New skills for
 general practice: 
Recharging – part 1

New skills for
 general practice: 
Assertiveness