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The practice closes between 1 pm and 3 pm every week for staff training and development and once a month we close all afternoon for an extended training session. These are called TARGET afternoons (not sure what TARGET stands for though but I dont think it has anything to do with targets!!!). Last weeks TARGET session was the annual fire training for all our staff. It is compulsory for everyone to attend - doctors, nurses and administrative support staff. We had a lecture from a fire officer, demonstration and practice outside using some live fire extinguishers and then went through how the fire alarm works. The fire alarm for the new premises are very complicated. There is a numbered sensor in every room, the premises are zoned and loads of things happen when the fire alarm goes off: the alarm starts screeching, the sensors start flashing, the fire brigade are called, all the fire doors close, all the doors that you can only get through with a fob open, the shutters which are down go

We have two new GP trainees start with us in February and as part of their induction pack I send them a practice booklet. The booklet includes details about the practice, how we work and about our patients. I last updated the booklet in February 2009 and was surprised to notice the growth in our practice list since then. In February 2009 we had 10,647 patients, today we have 11,232 patients on our list. This is an increase in the number of patients on our list by nearly 600 or just under 6%. New patients always mean more work because generally if patients move house they do not register with a new doctor or practice until they are ill! But it is also evidence that our current patients think we are doing OK as most new patients come from word of mouth. It feels quite good to think that our practice is well regarded that we are recommended by our current patients. Settling into new premises has been quite hard work and the challenge in the building is to continue to provide and quality s

Had a suggestion in our suggestions box today asking what the qualifications after the doctors names in our practice leaflet mean. Interesting questions so here is the list: MB - Bachelor of Medicine, ChB - Bachelor of surgery. These are the basic qualifications that all doctors get when they qualify. MRCGP - Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. This is a postgraduate qualification that some GPs apply for. The form of the examination for this qualification has changed over the years. Dr Mooney obtain MRCGP by doing an MCQ, essay paper and an oral exam. Dr's Walsh, Hilton and Harding obtained it by doing an MCQ, essay paper, oral examination and submitting a video of their consultations. Dr Brown obtained it by doing Membership by Assessment of Performance - submitted a video of my consultations, a portfolio of my work and then had an inspection at the practice. Dr Deeley obtained the nMRCGP - she had to do an MCQ, pass a consulting skills assessment (saw 12 pati

This sounds a very dry and techy sounding post but today at our Protected Education Meeting we had a presentation from Mr George Zito (Business Change Facilitator with South Yorkshire Health Informatics Service) about a new way of ordering pathology tests and making radiology request. Currently we fill a form in send it off. This works Ok for most of the time but there are the occasional mishaps - tests not done, handwriting not decipherable, lost requests or samples. With this new system we will make an order or request for a test or Xray on our computer and the request is linked directly to both our clinical system and hospitals system for managing pathology tests and Xrays. The new system will generate a form and sticky labels from our printer that is bar coded. The forms and stickly labels (with the bar codes) are attached to specimen bottles and samples and hopefully will reduce the odd mishap that happens at the moment. The golive date is scheduled for the end of February and the

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