04 Nov 2010
| by Dr Linda Miller
A GP trainer supervises a trainee during their time in practice. This includes inducting ...
the broad experience necessary to become a GP and to pass the MRCGP exam.
Weekly half-day release ...
a parent for the first time may well coincide with GP training and the trainer should be able ...
06 Oct 2011
| by Dr Pipin Singh
First5 is an RCGP initiative to support GPs in the five years after qualifying, says Dr Pipin Singh....Exciting times lie ahead for general practice. As a new GP, either salaried, locum or partner, some of us can find the transition from training to real life as an independent GP challenging ...
to support GPs in the first five years post MRCGP through to revalidation and comprises five pillars, which ...
21 Oct 2010
GPs have called for more opportunities for young members of the profession to develop...Dr Clare Taylor, CPD fellow for the RCGP's First5 initiative, which supports new GPs from completion of training to the first point of revalidation at five years, said young GPs could feel isolated and unable to take on leadership roles.
'Young GPs can feel disempowered, they are often salaried GPs ...
The South Holderness Medical Practice in East Yorkshire has been voted the overall winner of the GP...an innovative combined clinic to address the problem, bringing together GPs, nurses, pharmacists and patients ...
, the practice was voted overall winner by the readers of GP, and will be presented with a prize of 4,000 at the RCGP's annual awards day in November.
The GP Enterprise Awards are organised by GP newspaper ...
18 Nov 2010
This week's GP newspaper contains the first interview with Dr Clare Gerada as she becomes the first...? Deadlines for abolishing strategic health authorities and PCTs have been brought forward.
This week GP newspaper also reveals exclusively the results of a survey of GPs conducted with the NHS Alliance, on the eve of the opening of its conference in Bournemouth. Back in July, two-thirds of GPs opposed the White ...
11 Apr 2012
| by Dr Clare Gerada, RCGP chairwoman
The college has started the long process we hope will result in extending GP training to four years....that can be used flexibly by deaneries to create innovative, relevant GP training placements.
This extra year means the next generation of GPs would enter the profession armed with the skills necessary ...
02 May 2012
| by Dr Clare Gerada
and enhancing GP training has been accepted by the Medical Programme Board....was introduced 30 years ago - the year I qualified. And it hasn't changed since. What we expect of GPs and the NHS, however, has changed enormously.
Today, a GP is as likely to start someone on insulin or start ...
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Thirty years on, we expect much more from our GPs. Our bid for extended and enhanced GP training ...
06 Feb 2012
| by Abi Rimmer
and forced its chairwoman to work 20-hour days, GP can reveal.
Speaking to GP ahead of the college ...
, expensive Bill.'
Dr Gerada said that issues such as enhancing GP training, improving general practice ...
team is focusing everything on the Bill when it should be focusing on the resubmission for extending GP ...
Private companies will run one in 10 GP practices by 2014, more than doubling their current share...The warning came after a GP investigation found that 4% of GP practices in England were run by a private provider.
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GP leaders said private ...
such practices in their area.
The investigation found 191 privately run GP practices across the 92 PCTs ...
Commissioning offers GPs a perfect opportunity to bring excluded groups in from the cold. Colin...and fledgling GP consortia.
Alongside all the other competing priorities for new GP commissioners, they can ...
Fernandes
'GPs want to look after all people and to do so with equality, but it's a question ...
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'There can also be a rapid turnover of GPs, particularly if they are trainees, so that can be off ...