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Isolation remains a major issue for UK sessional GPs
The Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF) today announced the launch of its national research into sessional General Practitioners (GPs) in the UK. This research was commissioned as part of the charity’s Development Fund Sessional GP Project, looking into issues faced by sessional GPs on a national scale.
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So what does clinical-led commissioning mean for Sessional GPs?
Whether you like it or not, it's going to happen. As sessional GPs, particular as freelance GPs working in many different practices, you will no doubt have some across a huge diversity in the way in which the care is delivered to the patients you're caring for.
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Revalidation – complaints being overlooked
I’ve just returned from the bi-monthly meeting of the RCGP’s Revalidation Stakeholder Group, so I thought I’d give you a brief update. Please bear in mind that a lot of what goes on in these meetings is still “under development” so I’m talking mostly in general terms.
Read moreIs there such a thing as informed consent?
A patient and a doctor lying hand in hand on the operating table. That was what came to my mind as I browsed ‘Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together’, the GMC’s new guidance. Consent, it rightly says, is a process, and obtaining it is a partnership. But ultimately the dialogue has to come to an end, and then the patient is on his own.
Read moreRead GP financial advice on setting up a self assessment tax account for sessional GP work, starting out as a GP locum, how IR35 affects your GP locum, whether to join, stay or leave the NHS Pension Scheme, and what allowable expenses GP locums should record in their annual tax return.