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The top 7 mistakes GP practices make when recruiting
- 27 Mar 2023
Recruitment specialist Ash Higgs from MCG Healthcare sets out the most common mistakes practices make when recruiting – and how to rectify them
What does the future hold for GP bureaucracy?
- 9 Jul 2020
Nicola Merrifield looks at which reforms will remain standard practice after the pandemic
CQC will phone to check in with every GP practice in England starting next week
- 15 May 2020
The CQC, which suspended inspections in mid-March in response to the Covid-19 emergency, will begin a process of checking in with every GP practice in England from next week.
PCNs can start recruiting new roles early using unspent funding, says NHS England
- 24 Feb 2020
Primary care networks that struggled to recruit into additional roles are allowed to start recruitment of the next round of staff using their unspent ARRS funding from this year, NHS England has said.
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Coronavirus advice issued to GPs as UK ramps up airport precautions
- 31 Jan 2020
Public Health England has issued interim advice to GPs on dealing with potential cases of coronavirus in patients who have visited affected regions of China.
Pharmacy referral service 'relieving pressure' on GPs is set to expand
- 20 Jan 2020
An NHS service that refers patients with minor illnesses to their local pharmacist for advice is helping to relieve pressure on GPs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said.
How to resolve conflict as a nurse
- 28 Nov 2019
Richard Burnell, who works in the NHS as a specialist in conflict and mediation, shares his tips for nurses on dealing with clashes on the job whether with patients or colleagues.
Gold, incentives and 'meh': how the major parties' election pledges stack up
- 27 Nov 2019
Jaimie Kaffash grills the main parties on their plans for general practice in the upcoming election
GPs vote for home visits to be removed from contract
- 27 Nov 2019
GP leaders have voted for a motion for home visits to be removed from core GP contract work at the England LMCs conference in London in a shock result.
What you need to consider when recruiting a practice pharmacist
- 26 Jul 2019
More and more practices are considering recruiting a pharmacist to help with workload, particularly with the new funding available through primary care networks (PCNs).
Blog: the dos and don'ts of recruiting: avoiding discrimination
- 8 Apr 2019
Employment lawyer Charlotte Ollerenshaw explains how practice managers should approach the recruitment process to ensure they stay on the right side of discrimination legislation.
GPs should write longer duration prescriptions for long-term conditions
- 14 Mar 2018
Prescriptions covering just 28 days are not based on 'sound' evidence and could be increased for stable conditions, a new study has suggested.
Practices talk up social life in bid to attract new GPs
- 21 Feb 2018
GP practices in Scotland are emphasising their social side in job adverts in an attempt to attract new talent amid a severe workforce shortage.
GP practices missing 400,000 clinical letters due to Capita handover
- 5 Feb 2018
There is a backlog of hundreds of thousands of pieces of clinical correspondence that have not been directed to GPs as a result of NHS England's failure to resolve problems associated with their contract with Capita, Government auditors have found.
Pressurised GP out-of-hours see serious incidents increase by 26% in a year
- 16 Jan 2018
EXCLUSIVE There was a 26% increase in the number of serious incidences reported by GP out-of-hours services to commissioners last year, with GP leaders warning that they are no longer a 'safe pace of work' and that there is an 'urgent crisis' in the service, a Pulse investigation has revealed.
How can we avoid the grim future for general practice?
- 11 Dec 2017
Dr David Wrigley urges GPs to support organisations in their fight against threats to NHS general practice.
Nine million patients told they can book evening and weekend GP appointments
- 11 Dec 2017
Every GP-registered patient is now able to access seven-day services in London, in the largest rollout to date.
Approximately 35% of GP practices may close lists to new patients
- 11 Dec 2017
A Pulse survey has found over a third of practice may end up not accepting new patients in the future.
