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Practical steps to improving surgery safeguarding
The CQC expects GP practice staff to play their part in protecting people from abuse and avoidable harm. But what does this actually mean? Lawrie keep reading
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Driving improvement in your GP practice
Inspections are an essential part of maintaining standards and driving improvement in healthcare services. In June the Care and Quality Commission published a set of keep reading
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How to work smarter, not harder
Modern practice managers have their work cut out for them. Practice workload is increasing and resources are decreasing – all practice staff are tasked with keep reading
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How to make better procurement decisions in your GP practice
The LMC Buying Groups Federation has been saving GP practices time and money on their purchasing for 10 years – and, more recently, they’ve been keep reading
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Tips for boosting resilience and confidence
Confidence and resilience are two essential attributes that can help you to excel in your day-to-day tasks and to overcome any challenges you encounter along keep reading
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Exercise brings a healthy measure of success
GP James Higgins explains how residents in Stockport, Greater Manchester are being encouraged to self-medicate – with exercise – thanks to the success of a keep reading
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Safe surgeries; improving patient access
A ‘safe surgery’ is a GP practice that takes steps to tackle the barriers faced by many migrants accessing healthcare; in practice it involves ensuring keep reading
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How a green light to switch lanes could drive medicines’ optimisation
David Englefield, managing director at Spirit Healthcare, describes how CCGs can take the fast track to saving money on prescribing If someone offered your CCG immediate savings keep reading
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Managing patient healthcare by helping them to manage their own health
GPs are under more pressure than ever. Their workload has grown – seeing a 13% increase in appointments over the past five years; this is keep reading
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Is technology driving efficiency in your practice – or, could it do more?
GP practices have, so far, led the way in patient-facing technology; consider the move from paper to digital patient record-keeping and the offering of online-access keep reading