It’s flu season, yay! Not yay really… As a PM, I used to loathe flu season with its enormous amount of work, including juggling staff, patients and of course vaccine deliveries, hoping your reception team wouldn’t forget to put the vaccines in the fridge, despite this being tattooed on their foreheads. Somehow, I still felt…

An official investigation has been launched into allegations that large numbers of patients in care homes were placed on do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation orders without their full consent. The investigation is to be conducted by the Care Quality Commission at the request of the Department of Health and Social Care in England. The CQC…

I love my job, I’m good at it, I get well paid for it, and I know I help a lot of people doing it. This isn’t a “patients are awful” post, because I know it’s tough out there – I’m a patient too. This isn’t a post to say the government / NHS England…

Having spent the best part of four decades as a practice manager, it goes without saying that Elaine Wilkinson has witnessed an awful lot of change in general practice. In 40 years, Elaine has had to deal with countless clinical, administrative, technological and funding changes – which she has successfully dealt with by following two…

There’s a lot of traffic on the PI forum and Facebook groups lately about staff social events. Do we have them? Can we have them? If staff go ahead and meet up but don’t follow the government guidelines and then plaster it all over social media, can I do anything about it?! So I thought…

I am a practice manager in a large, semi-rural medical practice in Lincolnshire. We have just shy of 20,000 patients and a magnificent team of 60 dedicated individuals who provide clinical and administrative support in keeping the wheels of our little part of the NHS landscape turning. We all work exceptionally hard in normal times…

Having scoured the gov.uk website, so far I can’t see anything about planned changes to the flu vaccination campaign this year. That said, I did find this document which provides some clues about the way things might develop. I’ve deliberated before over what the flu season might look like this year. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t manage to secure any…