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Free GP locum accounting talk launched for October
Adrian Cousens, director of RSM UK, will present a free 45-minute talk with time for questions as part of NASGP’s monthly webinar on the first Thursday of every month.
Making Tax Digital project in question as cost balloons
Rolling out Making Tax Digital may be too expensive to pursue.
LocumDeck nominated for two General Practice 2023 awards
GPs can vote for their choices until 11 October.
GP numbers ‘flatlining’, latest NHS workforce stats reveal
By headcount, there are currently 36,493 fully-qualified GPs (excluding trainees), 236 fewer than July 2022. These stats exclude GP locums.
GP and psychologist to present NASGP’s September event
Dr Elizabeth McNaught, a GP with lived experience of disordered eating, will join NASGP’s September event.
GP Return to Practice programme relaunched
The bursary has now risen to £4000 per month and can be backdated to 1 April.
Prof Tony Avery and MPS to speak at NASGP event
Professor Tony Avery and Dr Caroline Osborne-White will lead sessions as part of Guidelines 2023’s NASGP stream.
GP registrars can now book post-CCT sessions on LocumDeck
Registrars can now add availability to get ahead.
GPs’ 25-contact limit ‘arbitrary’, says NHS England
NASGP members warn of doing more than twice the limit in rare cases.
GP at Hand sale looms as Babylon merger fails
Babylon is seeking to sell off its UK business including GP at Hand after a planned merger failed.
Free talk on eating disorders scheduled for GPs in September
Nick Pollard, co-author of The Oxford Specialist Handbook on Eating Disorders, will present a 45-minute talk next month on his work on eating disorders.
Salaried GPs and trainees scheduled for 6% payrise
The Government has announced that salaried GPs and trainees are due a 6% pay rise.
Burnout rife for GP registrars and trainers – GMC survey
GP trainers and trainees have reported high levels of burnout in this year’s GMC survey.
Two weeks to payment on account deadline
Tax on account is due on 31 July.
GPs in Suffolk and Essex get funded NASGP membership
GPs get funded until 2025 with just one LocumDeck session.
BMA doctors declare ‘no confidence’ in the GMC
Doctors at ARM protest for the second time in five years.
General practice in Wales faces collapse, GPC chair warns
Four in five Welsh GPs fear they will be unable to provide safe care because of workload.
GPs, consultants, SAS and junior docs may strike pre-election
All four types of doctors could take industrial action in the run-up to the general election, BMA warned The Guardian.
New GP business education series launches this summer
GPs can access an earlybird discount by using the code BBJUNE10.
Practices get easier access to remote GPs on LocumDeck
Hundreds of GP locums have already worked thousands of remote sessions through LocumDeck, all using their own laptops, and full access to the practices’ IT systems.
GPs asked to ‘take extras on top of agreed patients’ by NHS 111
Wessex LMCs, which covers Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight where NASGP offers funded membership, said it had had reports of NHS 111 phoning practices to push additional patients or telephone referrals.
Some 3,2000 GPs hit by locum bank’s ‘potential data breach’
It is possible that some bank details may have been exposed via invoices, Pulse understands.
Sessional GPs and registrars report escalating patient abuse
GP locum reports leaving a practice after three experiences.
GP’s apology is not an admission of guilt, GMC confirms
Regulator forced to clarify position after 2019 locum case.