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GPs and practice staff across London face “appalling and systemic” racism from the public, according to a new report. More than a third of workers in primary health reported experiencing racial discrimination or harassment within the previous year, according to a Health Education England investigation into London. In the survey of 1,000 GPs and other…
May 5, 2022, by PM Polly in GP Practice Management, Opinion 5 Comments
As I fill in yet another survey for the ‘powers that be’ about what we’re spending our time doing in general practice, I again sit there pondering what the survey doesn’t cover. Normally these surveys specifically single out appointments as a magic gauge to what goes on at the surgery. Despite several emails over the…
May 5, 2022, by Mat Phillips in Clinics, GP Practice Management, Patients, Staff 0 Comments
It wasn’t too many years ago that the humble medicine cabinet simply contained some plasters and aspirin. Nowadays, it seems to be bulging at the seams with all kinds of tablets and a variety of home diagnostic equipment. During the pandemic, we all know it became harder to see a clinician. So, many a household…
May 3, 2022, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments
The average number of patients under the care of every fully qualified GP has reached 2,200 – with numbers per doctor reaching 3,000 in one town, according to an analysis published today. The numbers have increased by a tenth in the last five years, according to the analysis by the Liberal Democrats, published in the…
May 1, 2022, by Practice Index in Employment Law, H&S Updates, Health & Safety, HR - Human Resources 0 Comments
A summary of the HR and H&S updates issued in April 2022 HR Updates Amber alerts Care home assistant who refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19 not unfairly dismissed Employment claims rates and compensation limits annual increase Employment rights and when they accrue H&S Updates Amber alerts Safe use of ladders and stepladders at work
April 29, 2022, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments
Practices are responding to public pressure by delivering more face to face appointments and home visits in spite of falling numbers of fully qualified doctors, according to the latest data. In total, practices in March delivered 27.1 million appointments of which 18.3 million were face to face, according to the NHS Digital data published yesterday.…
April 28, 2022, by Kay Keane in (IGPM) Institute of General Practice Management, GP Practice Management, Patients, Training 0 Comments
Over 250 people joined us this week for the Gender Identity Toolkit Launch Webinar. The toolkit is a project the IGPM have been working on with Indigo, the LGBT Foundation Pride in Practice, and Practice Index for some time. This work has resulted in a document that we think is highly relevant to practices, and…
May 6, 2022, by GP Practice News in GP Practice Management, News 0 Comments