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The GPonline team looks at the GP employment crisis and concerns about what job opportunities await the many GP registrars due to qualify this summer.
They highlight the latest news from the general election, discussing the BMA’s manifesto and what the political parties have been saying about general practice in their manifestos. And the talk about GMC regulation of physician associates after the regulator set out some further details about how this will work.
 
Our good news story this week is about a new surgery development in North Yorkshire.
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower, deputy editor Nick Bostock and senior reporter Kimberley Hackett. It was produced by Czarina Deen.
Useful links
GPonline’s general election coverage
The GPs standing to be MPs in the general election
GP registrar applies to work for Tesco as general practice jobs evaporate
BMA calls GP unemployment a ‘national disgrace’ after GP confronts Sunak
Supervising physician associates – what GPs need to know
Doctors raise over £40,000 for GMC legal challenge over PA and AA regulation

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Emma speaks to GP Dr Farnaaz Sharief who is also the chief executive of Manage your Mind which works with NHS and social care staff to help develop mental resilience.
Farnaaz talks about mental wellbeing in the NHS, what mental resilience means and why it is so important.
She also has lots of practical advice on how people can boost their mental resilience to help them cope with stress and pressures - both inside and outside work, how to support friends and colleagues experiencing stress, what practices and organisations can do to promote wellbeing, and the role coaching can play.
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower. It was produced by Czarina Deen.
Useful links
●     Manage your mind
●     Box breathing (link to YouTube)
●     The straw breath (link to YouTube).
●     Farnaaz’s webinar on wellbeing on MIMS Learning
Good Medical Practice
The updated version of the GMC’s Good Medical Practice is here.

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The GPonline team discusses the BMA ballot on collective action, which launches in June and what the general election could mean for that and general practice more widely. They talk about the Royal College of GPs call for an overhaul of GP funding so that it better addresses health inequalities and a wider report the college has produced on how to reverse the inverse care law. And they round up what went on at last week’s UK local medical committees conference.
Our good news story this week is about a scheme in London that has been prescribing fruit and veg to patients on low incomes and with long term conditions that has seen some really impressive results.
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower, deputy editor Nick Bostock and senior news reporter Kimberley Hackett. It was produced by Czarina Deen.`
Useful links
GPonline’s general election coverage
DDRB uplift could leave practices £350m behind 2019 funding, warns GP leader
RCGP demands overhaul of 'all GP funding streams' to cut inequality
RCGP report Breaking the inverse care law
GPonline’s UK LMCs conference coverage



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This week Emma talks to Tara Humphrey, founder and CEO of THC Primary Care, which provides management support and training to primary care networks across England. Tara is also the host of the Business of Healthcare podcast.
Tara explains what makes a successful network, some of the challenges networks have to overcome and the positive side of the additional roles reimbursement scheme. She also talks about how the 2024/25 GP contract could affect PCNs, why financially secure GP practices are crucial to the success of networks and whether networks are here to stay.
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower and produced by Czarina Deen.
Useful links
THC Primary Care


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In our regular news review the GPonline team looks at NHS England's plans to pilot new ways of working in general practice in a bid to ‘optimise the general practice operating model’ - and what this could all mean for the future. They also discuss what the BMA has suggested should be included in the next major overhaul of the GP contract.
They look ahead to next week’s UK conference of local medical committees and discuss some of the key motions up for debate and they talk about the state of GP premises after updated premises cost directions were published last week following many years of delay.
Our good news story this week is about an outreach project that’s taking health services out into deprived communities.
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower, deputy editor Nick Bostock and senior news reporter Kimberley Hackett. It was produced by Czarina Deen.
Useful links
What do the Premises Costs Directions 2024 mean for practices? - on GP Business
Listen to the podcast episode where Emma and Nick talked about the Fuller stocktake when it was first published.
BMA sets out demands for 'new substantive GP contract'
How safe working limits for GPs should change to reflect complexity
LMCs to debate mass resignation and 'triple lock' linking GP contract to inflation


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Earlier this year the Royal College of GPs published a statement setting out a number of steps it said needed to be taken to ensure general practice was treated on a par with other branches of medicine. The college argued that a failure to recognise general practice’s role as the cornerstone of the NHS was driving underfunding and perpetuating the GP crisis.
This week Emma talks to the college’s vice chair for external affairs Dr Victoria Tzortziou Brown about how we can achieve parity of esteem for general practice and why it is so important that we do.
Victoria talks through some of the recommendations the college has made around tackling inequalities in training, education and research; why we need steps to limit workload in general practice; and the importance of greater representation of general practice in leadership roles both locally and nationally.
She also explains why the GMC’s specialist and GP register should be merged and discusses how the college hopes its strategy on achieving parity will develop in the coming months.
You can find the college’s statement on achieving parity for general practice here https://www.rcgp.org.uk/representing-you/policy-areas/parity-esteem
The article on GPonline about how the RCGP was founded is here https://www.gponline.com/nhs-70-founding-rcgp/article/1485054
This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower and produced by Czarina Deen.
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