Well, Christmas has rolled around pretty quickly! Had to check myself yesterday when someone said, “Oh I can’t do next week, but I can do Christmas week.”, Cue the reply “Err, next week IS Christmas week!” Then cue blind panic when I realised all I’d bought my hubby was a box of sweets and a pair…

I realised earlier this week that my last blog was back in April… Where has the time gone? Well, I can tell you quite easily – in a blur of demand, #*¥!* paperwork, more general #*¥!*, forging ahead with IGPM stuff, a bit more #*¥!* … and, hey presto, the months have flown. In the…

Many of you, by now, will be aware that I’m one of the co-founders of the Institute of General Practice Management and that (behind the day job) we’re steaming ahead, making sure we’re recognised as THE ‘go-to’ organisation – We want to become the first place that anyone who’s anyone will come to, to get the…

Well, it’s been a while dear reader, but the rant is back, and I hate to say it’s all things COVID! But, there’s nothing else going on in the world after all! Earlier last week, I sat down with my nurses and worked out a plan of action to sort out second doses of our…

I’ve always thought that things moved quickly in primary care, and what a whirlwind the past few months have been. You would have to have lived under a rock to miss the fact that we now have an organisation representing us, PMs for PMs, our very own IGPM, and all created in such a short…

In the middle of October I participated in a podcast discussing the low morale in primary care, how everyone had just about had enough of the 6.30 am TV appearance of Matt Hancock telling Joe Public that primary care was going to be doing X, Y and Z today… and yet we had no clue…

Earlier this week on the forum, there was an anonymous post from one of our colleagues asking if they “should stay or go”. Alarmingly, there were a number of comments posted saying that they too were going, or would be going shortly. This made me incredibly sad at the rapid exodus of good, solid managers…