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.

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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.

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