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Vacancy: Deputy Medical Director – three days per week, 13 month contract
Fixed-term from Nov 2024 - Dec 2025, London or home based, £78k + 16% employer pension contribution. Closes 9:00am, 19 August.
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Fixed-term from Nov 2024 - Dec 2025, London or home based, £78k + 16% employer pension contribution. Closes 9:00am, 19 August.
Plus: our safety resources, getting involved in speaking up for general practice and reporting pressures to make the case for greater support.
New Ministers can cut red tape to employ more GPs, alongside having an honest conversation about what the service is resourced to do.
18 October 2021 Dear Colleague, We do have allies. On this autumnal manic Monday, its important to know we are not alone. There are plenty of journalists and commentators ready and willing to counter the toxic narrative spun by the right-wing media last week. Here are just a few: On Thursday Sky News carried analysis […]
On 8 October NHS England issued its latest update on the Becton Dickinson blood test container supply problem. The main change from previous advice is the instruction to order Becton Dickinson containers “little and often”, with the aim of practices holding no more than one week’s stock at any time. Demand from June and July this year should be the […]
15 October 2021 Dear Colleague, Staying Present. If you have had a chance to look through the “General Practice Support package” released yesterday then I’m sure you are as disappointed, frustrated, and downright angry as I am. The measures set out by Ministers and NHS England managers, and crowed over by the Daily Mail as […]
On 23 July 2021 NHS England and NHS Improvement and Public Health England issued a useful letter which advises people without an NHS number, including people who are migrants, how to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The letter also advises how register at a GP practice. You can download the letter here. If you have any queries […]
01 October 2021 Dear Colleague Practice staff abuse: raising your concerns with political and police leaders I am utterly appalled by the verbal and physical attacks on GPs and practice staff colleagues, and the level of abuse levelled at GPs through social media. I am astounded by the propaganda we face in relation to false […]
1 October 2021 Dear Colleague Practice staff abuse: raising your concerns with political and police leaders I am utterly appalled by the verbal and physical attacks on GPs and practice staff colleagues, and the level of abuse levelled at GPs through social media. I am astounded by the propaganda we face in relation to false […]
We need your help to combat the growing anti-GP sentiment being experienced by GPs and practice staff. As your representative body, we are increasingly worried about the volume of abuse which our GPs and practice teams are being subjected to on a daily basis, and the mental and physical effect of that abuse. If you […]
The BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting 2021 was held virtually on 13 and 14 September. Londonwide LMCs proposed a motion to end compensation claimants pursuing professional proceedings against GPs. The motion as passed reads: Motion by Conference of LMCs: That this meeting notes the concerns expressed by indemnity providers that the goodwill shown to clinicians in the pandemic will […]
The last month has seen a number of new announcements affecting general practice and the wider health and care system. Autumn and Winter Plan Last week the Government launched its Covid-19 Response: Autumn and Winter Plan 2021, setting out measures to control the Covid-19 pandemic through the coming months, and further steps in the form of […]