Safe working and managing workload in general practice
Safe working and managing workload in general practice
- Safe working in general practice in England
- Safe working in general practice in Scotland
- Safe working in general practice in Northern Ireland
- Safe workload guidance for GPs in Wales
- Workload and overtime guidance for salaried GPs
- Strategy for controlling workload in general practice
- Care navigation and triage in general practice
- General practice responsibility in responding to private healthcare
GP service provision
GP service provision
- What services GP practices can and cannot charge for
- The firearms licensing process
- Issuing fit notes
- Enhanced services GP practices can seek funding for
- GP access: meeting the reasonable needs of patients
- Choosing an online GP consultation platform
- Identification and management of patients with frailty
- Managing patients with gender dysphoria
- NHS e-Referral Service: a guide for GPs
- Patients presenting with dental problems
- Spirometry in general practice
- NHS primary care medical services in institutions and care homes in the UK
- Providing court reports
- Pharmacotherapy and community treatment and care services in Scotland
- Accelerated access to GP-held patient records 2023
- Exploring innovation in GP Practices
- Reasonable Adjustments Digital Flag (RADF)
Additional GP guidance and resources
Managing your practice list
Practical guidance on patient registration, list validation, removing patients from your practice list
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Prescribing
View our detailed guidance on prescription in general practice
- Prescribing in general practice
- Principles for dispensing doctors and community pharmacists
- Prescribing over-the-counter medicines
- Anticipatory prescribing for end-of-life care
- The falsified medicines directive
- Patient group and patient specific directions
- NHS electronic prescription service
- Prescribing over-the-counter medicines in nurseries and schools
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Funding and contracts
Read about how general practice funding is calculated and learn more about GMS contracts
- Global sum allocation formula
- GMS contract and PMS agreement differences
- Handing back a GMS/PMS contract
- Minimum practice income guarantee (MPIG) phase out
- Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)
- Trading in goodwill
- The sustainability crisis in GP practice in Scotland
- PCSE (Primary Care Support England) Seniority Payments Reconciliation Exercise 2023
- Confirmation of increased 2024/25 contractor pay and staffing expenses funding uplift
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Vaccinations
View our guidance on vaccine and immunisation program
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Primary care networks
Learn more about PCNs and how they work
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BMA support services for GP practices
Find out how we can support your practice
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The CQC (Care Quality Commission)
Read about what the CQC do and how to prepare for a CQC inspection
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Advice for employers
Learn more about training staff, employment rights and annual leave entitlements
- Training resource for GP practice staff
- Employment status
- Joint employment of shared staff in GP practices
- Managing the disciplinary process: guide for GP practices
- Employing clinical pharmacists in GP practices
- Employing registrars on the 2016 junior doctor contract
- Guide to annual leave for salaried GPs
- GPs outside of traditional practice
- Guide to working conditions for salaried GPs and employers
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Communication with patients
Find out about the accessible information standard, receiving gifts from patients and publishing GP net earnings
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Locum GPs
Guidance for locums on sick leave, parental leave, pension contributions and NHSmail
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Partnership agreements
Read our practical guidance on taking on new partners and GP partnership agreements
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GP premises
Read our practical guidance on the logistical and legal issues relating to GP premises
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Complaints in primary care
Read about dealing with complaints both online and offline
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