Investment in primary care will be crucial to ambitions to cut cancer deaths in the UK, senior doctors say. Cancer Research UK yesterday set out its proposals aimed at preventing 20,000 deaths from the disease by 2040. Among its proposals is a call for a dramatic reduction in waiting times for tests and diagnoses. The…

Would you like to easily compare your practice income and performance against other practices? Benchmarking Manager (free in the HUB) makes this super simple! We’ve taken everything you love, and added some new features and benefits: View total figures and averages per weighted patient Compare current financial performance against previous years Analyse where your results…

This week we’ve heard that the minimum wage is set to increase to £11.44. As a Practice Manager who knows how hard our lowest-paid staff struggle, this was music to my ears. However, as a Practice Manager who looks after a limited staff budget, this news made me anxious. How on earth are we going…

General practice in Northern Ireland is now in its “most difficult position ever,” a major summit has heard. Practices are having back contracts in the face of financial and staffing pressures and rising patient needs, the region’s conference of local medical committees heard. Dr Alan Stout, who has been chair of the British Medical Association’s…

“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life” – Hillary Clinton This year during Self-Care Week, it’s important to think about both ‘Mind and Body’. With that in mind, I thought I’d share some management and behaviour principles that can be applied not only in the workplace but in home life too. I’d like…

Doctors need to maintain “generalist” skills in order to provide care for growing numbers of elderly people with multi-morbidity, the chief medical officer for England has said. CMO Professor Chris Whitty said that governments had not planned adequately for this growing population – warning that the elderly are increasingly concentrated in coastal and rural areas.…

Nearly three million people a month are trying and failing to get through to GP practices, according to a new analysis. A new survey of GP access has been undertaken since May this year and found little change up to the end of October, the Health Service Journal revealed. The survey is a new study…