We’re continuing our five-minute delegation series with a set of quick audits of patients who have more significant safeguarding needs. Most of the audits can be carried out by any member of your team, though you might need to delegate the follow-up actions more selectively. Safeguarding is an essential and overarching theme within general practice,…

Saving you time with a new idea around delegation of onerous tasks, and tips for quick audits to keep an eye on things without too much involvement on your part. In general, staff see finance as the domain of the PM. Of course, in large practices PMs may have a finance assistant to help with…

We’re continuing our five-minute delegation series with an easy win for PMs. Of course, it won’t work for all meetings, because some are too confidential to be dealt with by someone else. But even if you can’t onward delegate, we’ll show you how you can achieve the same aims but with less aggravation. In either…

Coronavirus has been many things – and most of them distressing – but I didn’t expect it to be the thing that saved me money on banking. After years of GP partners who thought I might run away with their cash or who couldn’t remember their passwords to save their lives, in my new practice…

We’ve been thinking about the limits on practice managers’ time, and the impact that the reduction in workload is having on practice teams. Not so long ago, staff had no spare capacity to do anything extra; now we’re in a position where we might have a chance to get ahead of the game. That said,…