Thousands of vulnerable people have been learning digital skills aimed at teaching them how to use the internet to manage their health and contact GPs, it was announced today. The project has seen some 200,000 people have lessons on going on-line – and led to 7% of them, some 14,000, registering with GPs on-line or using…

IT – it stands for Information Technology you know?  For me IT also stands for I and then also Temper.  This is because I lose my Temper quite a lot with IT. The clinical system is fab – when it works.  An example of how my temper tantrum boils up like a teenager who has…

Boundaries Acceptable physical contact at work between employees is about maintaining appropriate boundaries: a friendly touch on the shoulder may be quite acceptable, even welcome for one person, but unwanted for another alternatively, between friends in the workplace, a touch on an arm or shoulder accompanied by a kiss to the cheek may be acceptable…

By Robert Campbell In a series of articles to help support new GP Practice Managers here is a tongue in cheek view of the first thirty-one days (or is it?). Peter’s Puzzle There is a  puzzled look on the face of new practice manager as he surveys the scene in his new office of paper…

A new survey, released today (22 March 2016) by the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF), highlights the overwhelming concern amongst doctors about the state of their mental health and wellbeing as a result of working under increasing pressure and scrutiny. The survey finds that 82% of doctors know of other doctors experiencing mental health issues…

Small practices are celebrating the success of a single-handed GP in gaining an outstanding rating from inspectors – as moves to create super-practices get under way. The Family Doctors Association say that the achievement, by a practice in Doncaster, Yorkshire, shows that small practices can offer good quality care. The GP Dr Mushkoor Sheikh runs…

A drive has been launched to encourage practices to employ physiotherapists to help patients with musculo-skeletal conditions. In a pilot scheme in Cheshire, patients were able to make a direct appointment with a physio rather than with a GP. The idea was being backed by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, which was holding its annual…