▶️ Meet the founders – Dr Richard Fieldhouse and Dr Sara Chambers explain how they started LocumDeck: youtube.com/watch?v=xqdZE5…

👋 We'll be at Pulse Live Leeds next week! Find out more: pulse365.uk/event-registra…

✅️The Fuller review engaged very widely & is now driving change
✅️ One conclusion is that...
⭐️We need to enable Primary Care in every neighbourhood (PCN) to create a single urgent care team to offer their patients...⭐️
Do you agree with this?
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'...this practice requires our empathy and support to ensure it can continue to provide the best possible service to its patients, and that all its staff members remain hopeful that the ongoing struggles will end soon.'

Our expert GP speakers bring a primary care focus to #GuidelinesLive to support the multidisciplinary team in maintaining best practice and the delivery of quality patient care. To book your 2024 early bird ticket, use the link here bit.ly/3StHBNm or visit our website💻

Looking at the impact of recruitment freezes and bans on use of temp staff on doctors workloads and ability to provide care. If you're a medic with thoughts on this please get in touch - for a doctors publication. #MedTwitter

🎙️If you missed our recent webinar: 'Chronic pain and the menopause/perimenopause', we would like to inform you that the recording is available via the BPS youtube channel
youtube.com/watch?v=_uoRYD…

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🎤 Exciting Announcement! 🚀

I am thrilled to share that my TEDx talk has officially been released, and I couldn't be more excited to take you on this journey with me.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3SbU…

The deadline is fast approaching to take part in the #GeneralPracticeAwards 2024! Make sure you visit the website to download your entry form - we've got some great categories this year inc. two new ones: bit.ly/4b9VreA

#healthcareawards #gpawards #awards

What is the cost when a salaried GP with 6 years' experience moves abroad?
 
If they worked at a rural practice it may struggle to recruit, relying on locum cover for up to 3 months (£735/day). When recruited, the new GP would take time to get up to speed bma.org.uk/attrition-costs

🧵 Thread:

RCGP to launch consultation on PAs in general practice buff.ly/3Ut426D #physicianassociates #GPworkforce #RCGP

GP’s will soon be stripped of the ability to sign people off work as part of a major government inititive to crack down on ‘sick note culture’

Rishi Sunak says people should stop 'over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life'

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Yesterday we wrote to NHS England to make clear our dispute.

Today we write to ICBs, & warn to plan for system consequences.

Listen to the 99.2% of GPs who said “No” in our #GPreferendum
Enough is enough.

ICBs, talk to your LMCs. Listen to what they have to say.

General Practice

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While no exact date has been set for a formal ballot on industrial action, GPC England has previously revealed its plans to open a ballot for GPs ‘by early September’ with a view to starting industrial action in November. buff.ly/4aEcjdm

GPs across the UK are looking after 10% more patients than they were 5 years ago

They epitomise having to do more with less

It’s not their fault the Government has failed our NHS - Please RT if you can see that

... without that, there is no chance of turning the NHS around and giving it the boost we need. (5)

...the opposite. It’s no news to anyone that a happy profession is a productive one, and a fair and decent remuneration package is desperately needed at the moment to boost morale because... (4)

...premises to work in, inclusive indemnity costs, subsidised education, greater career opportunities and no looming threat of less qualified colleagues taking on the work we’ve trained for for a decade.
But none of those benefits are being offered, in fact, quite... (4)