This week's highlights
Recruiting practice staff effectively
Getting recruitment wrong can be expensive. Fiona Dalziel has some advice to help practices ensure they have everything in place to recruit successfully.
LATEST MEDECONOMICS ARTICLES
Accelerated tax relief on new business assets
For a two-year period practices can offset expenditure of up to £250,000 against tax in the year of purchase. By Russell Finn
Reducing the cost of repeat prescribing
Dr Anita Sharma explains how her practice cut the cost of prescribing and reduced medicine wastage by reviewing the way it issued repeat scrips.
Tips for digitising your patient notes
Dr Neil Paul relates his practice's experience of scanning patient notes into its computer system and highlights a new service that is now available.
10 tips for the new QOF in 2013/14
Dr Gavin Jamie has some advice on where practices should focus their efforts to meet the demands of the QOF for 2013/14.
Options for practices with falling profits
After a number of years of falling income and cutting expenses, what else can practices do to maintain profts? Laurence Slavin considers some options.
Five important employment law issues
GP practices should be aware of five changes that have occurred recently or are in progress, says Jean Sapeta.
How an iPad app could help you with the dementia DES
Dr Chris Mimnagh's practice has been trialling an iPad-based dementia screening tool that could help GPs meet the demands of the new DES.
Premises costs directions 2013 explained
James Williams explains 10 key changes to England's NHS (GMS - Premises Costs) Directions, which came into effect on 1 April 2013.
Focus on management
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Health and safety essentials for GP practices
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How we improved our appointments system
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Setting up online appointments booking
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Managing online repeat prescriptions
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Managing holiday leave rotas harmoniously
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Getting your practice website right
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Redundancy: a guide for GP practices
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Managing patients' complaints
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Protecting your online reputation
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How we specialise and keep our referral rates down
Latest Jobs
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Salaried GP's Salaried GP's Avicenna Medical Practice Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Full-Time Partner Full-Time Partner Badgerswood Surgery Hampshire/Surrey/West Sussex Border
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Full Time Partner/Salaried GP (8 sessions) to replace retiring Partner Full Time Partner/Salaried GP (8 sessions) to replace retiring Partner Stirling Road Surgery Devon
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7 session Partner 7 session Partner Chobham and West End Medical Practice North West Surrey






