📢 Bursary applications open for RCGP conference attendance!
If your abstract or oral submission has been accepted for this year's RCGP conference, GMPCB's GP Excellence programme is offering a bursary to attend the event.
Find out more and apply here: bit.ly/49uWxQW

We'd like to say an enormous thank you 🙏 to everyone who attended the GM Primary Care Summit yesterday. It was great to see so much passion, debate and energy in the room and break-out sessions. Thanks for making it such a successful day! More updates coming soon.. #GMPCSummit24

Thanks to Dr Mark Spurrell for being part of inspiring the creation of STUCK and for closing our session today at Dukinfield Town Hall! 👍😊

Creating our character in the STUCK workshop: Remember your character is more than the reason they need help, more than what's wrong with them.

So now decide, what's your character's favourite food? 🎧🥙🍔

Some great feedback from our 'responding well to conflict' session delivered by Dr Joanna Bircher and Lorna Laflin from our PCB GP Excellence Programme team. Delegates gaining insight into how to respond well in situations when conflict occurs #GMPCSummit24

📢 Spring webinars for GP practices!
3 new webinars from the PCB's GP Excellence Programme are available for GP practices:

- New contracts
- Business continuity
- Responding well to conflict

Hurry as places are filling up fast! gmpcb.org.uk/spring-webinar…

An academic study by Manchester GP and NIHR clinical lecturer, Dr Jennifer Voorhees, has been published by The British Journal of General Practice. The paper explores the importance of considering the human aspects when introducing new GP access models. Read more: gmpcb.org.uk/practices-enco… #GPAccess #NIHR

🎧New episode release: Knee Pain
This is the final episode in our MSK mini-series - back with the lovely Tom and Charlotte who are FCPs in Healthier Wigan. We cover assessment including examination, differentials and red flags pckb.org GM GP Excellence

Read about our new audio piece STUCK! #GMLiveWell

You create a character who is STUCK and work with them, supported by the community, to come up with ideas to empower them to become UNSTUCK.

Learn more about it on our blog⬇️
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There's still time to nominate your health and care champion. Last year primary care was well represented in several categories, with Hawkley Brook Medical Practice being crowned Employer of the Year. Find out more ⬇️

The latest Primary Care Knowledge Boost Podcast focusing on shoulder pain is now available ⬇️

General practice has an access problem. Or (more accurately) ‘problems’.

Focus tends to be on how many appointments happen, of what type, & how long ppl wait.

But good access – and improving access - is about more than that 🧵👇

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Joanna Bircher TomMcNJones First as in first one of my own. Not led by Messrs Hall and Liddy at the time. Soon to be followed by another bunch of like minded young professionals in Wales nicola jones . Lesson also is it’s ok to take risk & follow something you believe in.

Professor Azeem Majeed Here was my reasoning from a slide last year!⬇️

In the long-term, splitting NHS primary care into separate services for acute & long-term needs risks harming patient care. Integrated, holistic care is essential for improved efficiency & better health outcomes. Let's focus on strengthening rather than fragmenting primary care.

Great to meet Ronald Kamoga who has been leading Cefovid Uganda for many years and doing incredible work towards sustainable solutions, education and skill acquisition for the poorest people in Kampala.

I visited a very special place this week, St Francis de Sales school for the deaf in Jinja, rural Uganda. In memory of Peter Mount CBE, founder of HUGS Charity and Past Chair of @mft_nhs