Category: Working as a GP

Advice on chambers, risk management and training for GP locums.

GPs to hand contracts to trust as recruitment fails

Dr Richard Fieldhouse, NASGP chair, said: 'Yet another tragic closure of a practice directly related to poor recruitment. Recruitment plans invariably focus on providing continuity, but without GP access – as this example proves – there is no continuity.'

Working as a GP

SystmOne practices switch on records access

SystmOne GP practices have switched on patient records access, Pulse reports.

IT systems

Patients should bypass GPs and self-refer, Starmer says

GPs took to social media to excoriate Labour leader’s proposals.

Working as a GP

GP visa rules lambasted as 48% of trainees face applications

Too many GP trainees face visa Tier 2 bureaucracy, the acting chair of the GPs’ Committee at the BMA has told the Financial Times.

GP training

Video: Improv skills in GP

Dr Waqar Ahmed presented NASGP’s January event, the first in our series of monthly clinical events for 2023.

What do GP locums need to know about enhanced access?

Dr Priyanka Saigal and Dr Dee Traue, Medicolegal Consultants at Medical Protection Society (MPS), explain the Enhanced Access Programme.

Risk management

LocumDeck adds policy docs and practice info features

GP practices can now upload policy documents and add key practice information on LocumDeck, thanks to new user-generated features.

Working as a GP

GPs asked to cover paramedics during ambulance strike

Action in England to go ahead on 21 Dec.

LocumDeck adds custom terms and conditions import

GPs can now upload their terms and conditions directly to LocumDeck thanks to a new user-requested feature.

GP locums

New January 2023 event launches with Dr Waqar Ahmed

He will explain how he’s been using tools from comedy and improvisation to make working in general practice easier.

More than one in 10 GPs now over 60 years old

Fears for workforce after GP Online publishes new analysis.

GP records access rollout halted ‘until further notice’

Access was withdrawn at the last minute.

Working as a GP

GPC: Salaried GPs should get ‘contractual’ 4.5% pay rise

The GPC stressed in its latest bulletin that GMS and post-2015 PMS practices have a ‘contractual requirement’ as set out in the model contract.

Salaried GPs

LocumDeck adds new set-up guides for GPs

NASGP’s LocumDeck is now even easier to use thanks to new set-up guides across the platform.

Working as a GP

Video: Self-employed GP locum accounting

An accountant advises how tax and NIC works for self-employed GPs.

NASGP’s LocumDeck added to NHS national framework

NASGP’s LocumDeck has become a registered digital supplier to the NHS.

GP locums

2024 GP contract ‘biggest change in 20 years’, LMCs say

LMCs will debate its future in a closed-door session at the annual LMCs conference on 24-25 November.

Working as a GP

GP locums face workload dump, BMA rep warns

Dr Barnes was responding to advice from the Future of General Practice report published last month.

Working as a GP

Video: Solution-focused approaches in general practice

NASGP runs lunchtime clinical talks on the first Thursdays on the month. See our news section to sign up for the latest events.

NHS ‘heatmap’ will show GP practices on ‘red alert’

A new ‘heatmap’ of GP pressure has been announced for practices in England, Pulse reports.

GP locums

Confidentiality in remote work: advice for GP locums

Julie Baylis, case manager, and Dr Rachel Birch, medicolegal consultant, both at Medical Protection, consider two scenarios.

Working as a GP

Delay records access, BMA and RCGP advise

Busy practices are unready for 1 Nov launch, leading GPs warn.

IT systems

Face-to-face appointments return to March 2020 levels

Meanwhile, GP numbers continue to fall.

Working as a GP

GP locums should do ‘minimum fair share’ of admin, MPs say

GP locums should do ‘minimum fair share’ of admin, a new report by the health select committee has advised.

GP locums