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Content ArticleWith the emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting many patients’ access to GP services, the Patients Association investigated what patients felt about their GP’s premises, and whether they would be confident to return to them.
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NHS: How to register with a GP practice
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You have the legal right to choose a GP practice that best suits your needs. Here are some tips on how to register with a GP practice.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Royal College of General Practitioners has updated its guidance on online consultations. The resource gives a useful set of questions to consider when using online consultations, such as which provider is used, the standard of patient care, and ensuring equitable access.
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Content ArticleWould you like to help our healthcare professionals understand how they can continue to use a new approach for prescribing safety in general practices? This research is looking at making prescribing safer in general practices in England and is jointly conducted by the Universities of Nottingham, Manchester, Edinburgh & Dundee. GP surgeries are working with pharmacists to use a computer programme to help find patients who may need their medicines reviewing. People from patient and public groups are invited to say what they think about continuing this service across the country in the longer term. If you choose to take part, this will involve being part of a group discussion on issues relating to continuing the service for medicines safety. You do not need to know about the service before taking part as this will be explained to you. If interested, please contact: azwa.shamsuddin@ed.ac.uk
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Content ArticleThis NHS Resolution video looks at three diseases where GPs often miss the diagnostic signs resulting in late referrals: cauda equina, colorectal cancer and subarachnoid haemorrhage. Clinical symptoms to be aware of in these diseases are highlighted.
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Content ArticleThis NHS Resolution video outlines the key components of good medical record keeping and highlights common mistakes to avoid.
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Content ArticleA key part of the NHS long-term plan, primary care networks (PCNs) will bring general practices together to work at scale. But what are they? How are they funded and held accountable? And what difference will they make? The King's Fund explains the latest form of GP collaboration.
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Content ArticleNever events (NEs) are serious preventable patient safety incidents and are a component of formal quality and safety improvement (Q&SI) policies in the UK and elsewhere. A preliminary list of NEs for UK general practice has been developed, but the frequency of these events, or their acceptability to GPs as a Q&SI approach, is currently unknown. This study from Stocks et al., published in the Journal of Patient Safety, aimed to estimate the frequency of 10 NEs occurring within GPs' own practices and the extent to which the NE approach is perceived as acceptable for use.
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Content ArticleTeamworking is fundamental to the future of general practice. Practices are coming together at scale in primary care networks and new roles are being introduced, creating multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams. Making these teams function effectively is a complex task. This guide from The King's Fund brings together insights from their research, policy analysis and leadership practice. The need for collaboration and communication underpins much of the guide and it providex further reading and case studies to support each section. Some of the sections will be more relevant to you than others, but if you are a GP, practice manager or other professional working in primary care, or you are supporting practices, this guide will help you think how you will go about creating and sustaining effective teams within general practice.
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A day in the life of an NHS GP (October 2018)
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Content ArticleTackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) are currently a priority within healthcare and antimicrobial stewardship is an essential element of national and local programmes to address AMR. The aim of this webinar is to provide an overview of antimicrobial stewardship (AS), its importance in tackling Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) and how pharmacists can contribute.
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Content ArticleThe pharmacy contribution to antimicrobial stewardship document focuses on the pharmacist’s role as part of a multidisciplinary approach in tackling the challenges of inappropriate use of antibiotics. The recommendations in this policy have been produced in order to contribute to wider efforts in meeting the challenge set by the UK Government in 2016 of reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by 50% by 2020.
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Content ArticleObjectives: To explore patients' and carers' experiences of rural general practice to identify their perceptions of safety of care. Design, participants and setting: Four focus group interviews were conducted with 26 rural patients and carers in south-west Victoria between September and December 2012. Frequent users of general practice were recruited from local allied health self-management programs and a mothers' group. Focus groups were audio recorded, transcripts were independently analysed and interpreted using narrative methodologies.
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Content ArticleLocum doctors are often perceived to present greater risks of causing harm to patients than permanent doctors. However, a study from Ferguson and Walshe published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine found that there is little evidence that locum doctors, including GPs, have a 'detrimental' pact on patient care delivery.
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Content ArticleThis paper, published in BMJ Quality and Safety, investigated how often patient safety incidents occur in primary care and how often these were associated with patient harm.
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Content ArticlePractice staff should use the GP e-form to report all patient safety incidents and near misses whether they result in harm or not. These reports are used by to spot any emerging patterns of similar incidents or anything of particular concern. This will help protect patients by raising awareness of the risks through shared learning with general practices and other health providers across the country.
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Content ArticleTARGET stands for: Treat Antibiotics Responsibly, Guidance, Education, Tools. The toolkit helps influence prescribers’ and patients’ personal attitudes, social norms and perceived barriers to optimal antibiotic prescribing. It includes a range of resources that can each be used to support prescribers’ and patients’ responsible antibiotic use, helping to fulfil continued professional development (CPD) and revalidation requirements.
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The Neptune story so far
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Winner of Patient Safety Learning's 'Data and Insight' 2019 award, Neptune is a drug testing monitoring software. Catherine tells the story of Neptune's journey from initial idea to implementation.- Posted
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Content ArticleDrug monitoring is a cumbersome, time consuming (expensive) and somewhat inaccurate process. The challenge set to ESC Software by a GP was to make an IT solution that was easy to use, comprehensive and reliable that would monitor patient testing to improve safety.
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Content ArticleThis short film showcases a day in the life of a general practice nurse, including the array of activities and procedures their day may include. The film is especially designed for pre-registration student nurses and those who may wish to transition into general practice from other areas.
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Content ArticleEarly warning scores were developed to improve recognition of clinical deterioration in acute hospital settings. In 2015, the West of England Academic Health Science Network supported the roll-out of the National Early Warning Scores (NEWS) across a range of non-acute-hospital healthcare sectors. The objective of this study from Brangan et al., published in BMJ Open, was to explore staff experiences of using NEWS in these new settings. This study demonstrated that while NEWS can work for staff outside acute hospital settings, the potential for routine clinical practice to accommodate NEWS in such settings varied.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Dr Amir Hannan, GP, describes how it’s normal for patients to access their electronic health records and easy for them to understand them at Haughton Thornley Medical Centres.
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How to access your health records
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Content ArticleProduced by the NHS Leeds Communications/Patient and Public Involvement and Experience Teams, the aim of this guide is to offer some support and practical guidance to GP Practices, who are interested in involving patients and carers in the running of their practice. The guidance will also support practices in achieving their Patient Participation Directed Enhanced Service (PPDES) The guidance will also support practices in achieving their Patient Participation Directed Enhanced Service (PPDES).
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