It’s the end of the year and time to look back on the best blog articles of 2015. Here’s what you read most over the last year – and it might not be what you think. Most clicked upon Spoof posting GPs storm London Transport in exodus to become tube drivers featured GP Dr Totali … Continue reading
Category Archives: Doctors in the spotlight
Worker Drones: Have We Been Institutionalised by the NHS?
Blog post by GP Nick Marotta The NHS is a powerful brand. It symbolises everyone pulling together and looking after one another; going the extra mile. A kind of Blitz spirit prevails. This “we’re all in it together” attitude institutionalised many staff to accept deteriorating pay and conditions in a belief that it’s for the … Continue reading
Thousands of junior doctors block Westminster in contract protest
Image courtesy of Dr Daniel Sommer @danielf90 on Twitter Over 5000 junior doctors marched on Whitehall last night in protest at Department of Health plans to impose a new contract of employment. Earlier in the day, NHS Employers had cancelled their roadshow to discuss the proposals which was due to be held at the Methodist … Continue reading
The Jubilee Street Story: how locums are not always the answer
In the second part of our interview with practice manager, Virginia Patania, we look at how goodwill from locums is supporting the Jubilee Street Practice in Tower Hamlets– and the impact of when that goodwill isn’t there. “It is so alien to me to be equating money by the minute or the hour. To healthcare. … Continue reading
The Jubilee Street Story
In part one of a two part interview, Dr Claire Davies interviews Virginia Patania, practice manager partner at Jubilee Street Surgery on what it takes to save a practice when funding is stripped away and calling Jeremy Hunt, ‘dude.’ “If you can bail out a bank, or you can bail out a hospital but you … Continue reading
Hashtag Backlash against Hunt: 3 reasons why this was a success for doctors
Doctors created a twitter storm this weekend against health minister Jeremy Hunt by using the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy to prove that consultants are already working weekends. The campaign, created by an anonymous anaesthetic trainee behind the Twitter handle @ImInWorkJeremy, formed overnight in reaction to Hunt’s Friday announcement that he plans to impose 7 day working on … Continue reading
Leaving GP Partnership: making the decision
GP Vicky Froome reflects on what it took to leave a partnership and become a locum Being in Partnership Being a partner was what I had spent years working towards. I was also a GP Trainer, led on QOF, and was extremely fortunate to be in a strong team – a relationship that lasted 8 … Continue reading
Seven day GP opening: hollow promises for false needs
One of the most farcical things about the election result is the government’s promise that GPs will be open 7 days a week, from 8-8. Let’s face it, whoever got in, GPs were going to lose. Every politician claimed to have a magic bullet for GP access. Milliband even said ‘it’s a scandal that … Continue reading
GP Dr Zoe Langridge: making GP out of hours fit around family
GP Zoe Langridge is a GP based in Hackney and Tower Hamlets with two children aged 2 and 4 who is making a variety of roles work for her and her family. Right now, Zoe works in GP Out of Hours (OOH), doing between one and three overnight sessions per week. She is also the … Continue reading
GP Spotlight: Dr Krishan Aggarwal
By Dr Claire Davies, Lead GP Columnist Krishan Aggarwal is the new Network Locum GP Ambassador. Claire Davies catches up with him about GP life and medical politics in Central London. Krishan Aggarwal arrives for the interview looking freshly pressed in a suit despite a morning’s work in primary care behind him and a freezing … Continue reading
