Practices have been praised for the “wonderful” achievement of ensuring that almost every care home in England has now been offered COVID-19 vaccination. The programme has reached more than 10,000 care homes and the only ones omitted have been told to wait by local public health departments because of local outbreaks. Alongside outreach to care…

Do you find yourself becoming increasingly short-tempered or have you seen members of your team go from being happy and chatty to the person who comes to work, does their job and says nothing? Today’s working environment is significantly different to what it was 12 months ago; little did we know then the significant impact…

Practices are being encouraged to sign up for a new set of standards for providing support for care homes. The standards were being developed before the pandemic – but are now more applicable than other, according to developers, the Royal College of GPs and Marie Curie. The “Daffodil” standards were first launched last year but…

Concerns are growing that mass vaccination may have to slow down, even as the UK gets to grips with passing 100,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK’s most successful vaccination region is to face rationing for doses next month because of global shortages, it has been reported. Supplies to the north west will be…

GP negotiators are to concentrate their efforts on improving funding for primary care networks – after agreeing no more than minor changes to the standard practice contract, it has been announced. The practice contract deal already means that four primary care network services will not be introduced in April, the British Medical Association said. The…

I am a self-professed control freak. I think most Practice Managers have a little bit of this in their personality, and it makes them a better PM, as long as they know how to turn it off. Like most PMs, the COVID-19 vaccine campaign has added that final straw to an already wobbly camel’s back,…

It is safe to say that 2020 (as I naively joked a year ago – “the year of perfect vision”) turned out to be a year no-one could have anticipated. As I reflect back over that last 12 months, I can clearly remember the many difficulties that everyone has had to deal with, both individually…