Articles and advice for GP locums

Synaesthesia – a multisensory experience

Dr Judith Harvey

GP locums to receive H1N1 vaccinations from their employing practices

BMA
Clinical

Revalidation: it’s all about how many different practices you work in

How would you cut the NHS budget?

The NHS budget is going to be cut. Recently the Today programme asked for money-saving ideas. Here are some suggestions.

Dr Judith Harvey

GOK why MSF and PSQ are being used for SGPs

There’s still life in ‘Death in Service’

BMA letting salaried GPs down

It’s a representational mess and the BMA is just tying us in knots. And it's salaried GPs who are being strangled.

Salaried GPs

MDU advises practices on how to reduce risk to locums

Simple advice for practices to reduce exposing locums to risk.

MSF using 360 Clinical may be a useful tool for some locums

NASGP member Jenny Wilson works as a regular locum GP in a few practices has just performed some Multisource Feedback from 360° Clinical and has ofeered to share her experience with fellow members

Thinly spread locums a challenge to bread and butter revalidation evidence.

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.

An Imperfect Offering

Dr Judith Harvey

Is 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.

Dr Judith Harvey

Climate change can seriously damage your health

Dr Judith Harvey

The spirit catches you and you fall down

Dr Judith Harvey

Reading for pleasure and profit

Dr Judith Harvey

Paradise Hospital, Vanuatu

Hub life – GPs working centrally

UTI in Children

Paediatrics

MPS article on death certification

Long term macrolide use in respiratory conditions

Most of the time, long term macrolide therapy will be initiated in secondary care. However we may well be the ones actually writing the prescription, so it is worth being aware of some of the safety concerns.

Respiratory

Iron deficiency in pregnancy

There is a lot of uncertainty about managing anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy. A lot of what we do is based on consensus, rather than on evidence.

Read 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.

Knowledgebase

Ubani wake up call to enfranchise GP locums fully into NHS

Happy Christmas Two Loo!