Whether you’re preparing letters or writing handbooks and policies for the practice, it’s likely that you do a lot of your week’s work in Microsoft Word. Sometimes the programs we’re most used to are the ones we’re less inclined to learn new tricks for, and the chances are you’re spending valuable time missing out on…

A surgery in Manchester uses an appointment-by-Skype system to enable GPs to diagnose possible cases of Ebola without coming into contact with potential infection. Could this method be rolled out across the nation? Manchester Medical Practice stands on the frontline of innovation, being the first surgery in the UK to offer Skype appointments and has been…

A happy and appreciated team is normally one that’s more efficient and less absent from work. They’re more loyal, more creative when it comes to problem-solving, and they stick around for longer in your employment. Happier workers help their colleagues out three times more often than unhappy ones and they hit their targets 31% more…

Improving your Excel skills is a top opportunity to claw back a few minutes of work every day, which soon turn into hours and hours of saved time every week and month.  Whether you’re a master at Excel  and maybe use it as a Staff Holiday & Absence Planner or if you just know the basic…

Office-based jobs, even those where you’re up and out of your seat for much of the time, can still really take their toll on your fitness levels. Especially when your days can be long and stressful, and when exercise is the last thing on your mind when you leave work for the day. Here are…

Is your practice safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led? These are the key issues brand new CQC visits intend to reveal when their ‘new and improved’ inspections start this month. Yes, the CQC’s new inspection scheme is now live, and the body has pledged to inspect some 778 practices and out-of-hours services by the…

David Cameron and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to keep surgeries open 12 hours a day, seven days a week by 2020 is going to be ‘impossible to deliver,’ according to health professionals. Needless to say, we’d love to know what you think on the matter… The proposed changes – intended to ease mounting pressure…