Knowledgebase

Our extensive library available to members, covering everything from clinical practice and risk to wellbeing and money. With expert guidance from specialist partners.

Nice | Antenatal and postnatal mental health

FSRH | Male and female sterilisation

There are many reasons why doctors working as locums may be more at risk of receiving a complaint. Sara Chambers, NASGP’s appraisal and revalidation lead, and Charlotte Hudson, writer at MPS, provide tips on protecting yourself from complaints and the current complaints process.

Complaints

Enjoy your appraisal….

Appraisal

Doctors under siege

In 2011, Hamza was a young Syrian doctor learning German in the hope of going abroad for specialist training. Then the civil war broke out and he opted to stay in Aleppo, operating in makeshift hospitals on the people wounded by collapsing buildings, by barrel bombs, by snipers.

Judith Harvey

Annual bloods

Is your career stuck in a rut?

Your career choice is one of the most important decisions you can make. Don't put that decision off.

Career & wellbeing

Just how good is your NHS pension?

The practitioner part of the scheme is the same irrespective of whether you are GP. Some practices are refusing to pay the employers it a legal requirement.

Listening Land

Blood; don’t bank on it

How about a night out at the movies to watch a black-and-white documentary about a mobile blood collection unit in rural Russia? Well, Mama Mia it isn’t, but Blood turned out to be fascinating.

Judith Harvey

Wheeze in preschool children

A very common condition, affecting 25% of infants before the age of 18 months, and one which we will see a lot of over the forthcoming months.

Fit note GP guidance for urgent forms and letters

I’ve been crook and I’m just so over it

Lindsay Moran is a freelance GP locum and is currently saving our Australian cousins from themselves.

BASHH | HIV testing window

HMRC enquiries into tax

Accountancy

Nice | Gallstone disease

Nice | Acute heart failure

Trigeminal neuralgia

Neurology

Nice | Bipolar disorder

Nice | Diagnosis and management of drug allergy

Nice | AF and heart valve disease – self monitoring using home devices

You Can’t Go Home Again

Judith Harvey

The contingency career

What’s the evidence for Evidence-Based Medicine?

Judith Harvey

Hyperhidrosis

BASHH | Molluscum contagiosum

When a locum cancels a session

No matter what the reason, the sudden unavailability of a doctor or nurse is at the very least upsetting for patients, and in some cases can have serious adverse consequences on patient care. Practice staff go frantic having to rearrange appointments or find alternative cover.