Salaried GP

The Practice is following the recommendations outlined in the BMA Safe Working in General Practice and appointment length is therefore 15 minutes with breaks allocated throughout the day. A standard clinic is 13 patients in the morning and 12 patients in the afternoon. Due to the recent implementation of Total Triage, we no longer have duty sessions. You will cover a Total Triage session which will ordinarily be once a week with the day to be confirmed by the rota. You may be required to support your team by doing additional Triage Doctors sessions when there is sickness or annual leave.

Visits

The majority of visits will be covered by our paramedic but there will be times when you will need to visit patients. During periods of annual or sickness leave we would expect some flexibility to help cover the visits required.

Administration

You will be responsible for the filing of your own requested investigations for your patients. If GPs are on leave, you may receive some of theirs in rotation to deal with. Filing of letters/blood tests - are distributed based upon your allocated amount of patients on the practice list and sessions worked. We have a workflow system here that the administrative staff deal with the high volume low impact items. This has a beneficial effect on administrative tasks for GPs. Signing of prescriptions This is this done electronically and/or paper form. Scripts are signed by the Duty Support Doctor. We undertake ETP here, so it is a mix or both electronic and paper signing. We have a dispensary too, so there are prescriptions to be signed for them when you are Duty Support Doctor.

Supervision of nurses

If you are Triage Doctor 2 and a nurse needs a GP opinion, script signing etc. then this is your responsibility. The ANP & Paramedic cover the minor illness clinics. Our nurses are highly experienced, but will touch base with you where appropriate to discuss your patients. You may wish to work closely with a nurse when you have referred a patient to them.

Meetings

Regular Clinical Team meetings Twice Monthly on Mondays - these can be joined via Teams PLT Events - External and in house

PLT Mentor

You will be allocated a GP partner mentor, who is available to support you, although you may of course discuss any concerns with any of the Partners or GP colleagues.