Is your practice well-led? The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently published more of its popular mythbuster fact sheets. The latest round of mythbusting notes, written by Nigel Sparrow, Senior National GP Advisor and Responsible Officer at the CQC, aim to share the facts about such diverse topics as GP locums, consent for minor surgery…

Well, some of you may know me either as an ex or new colleague, or from my previous blogs when I was a PM in Gloucestershire. I haven’t written for a while but this was because I turned my whole life upside down by not only moving jobs but moving county! When I applied for…

A round up of the latest HR and Employment Law updates and related stories.   IS TRAVELLING TIME WORKING TIME? The European working time directive, as incorporated in UK law, lays down the guidelines, including maximum working week and breaks, for employees. As practice managers will be aware, normally employees should work at most a 48…

Everyone’s talking about a crisis in general practice. So just how bad it it? How many more consultations are being done each week? Have the patients got more complicated? Or more demanding? The truth is, there’s really no way of knowing at the moment. Despite the vast amounts of data that is collected by individual…

Last week’s NHS England’s Health and Care Expo was awash with big, bold statements made by the ‘big names’ of the healthcare sector about the future uptake of technology in general practice. From electronic patient records through to online triage, internet appointment systems and SMS utilisation, if everything that was said is to be believed…

The NHS mantra should be: “Every patient needs a barcode”. That was the thought outlined by Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information and Chair of the National Information Board, as he opened last week’s Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 conference in Manchester. He told delegates: “Hospitals across the country are…

A round up of the latest HR and Employment Law updates and related stories.   DISCRIMINATION – EMPLOYERS MUST MAKE REASONABLE ADJUSTMENT FOR A DISABLED EMPLOYEE Section 15 of the Equality Act 2010 means that where an employer knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, that the employee has a disability, the employer can not…