NHS Opportunity: General Practitioner

general practitioner Current Vacancies

2006-11-27:

A general practitioner (GP) provides medical care for patients in the community, diagnosing and treating illness, disease and infection. They see patients in their surgery or visit them at home.
A GP works in a team of health care professionals including nurses, health visitors, midwives, physiotherapists, dietitians, counsellors and others, as well as the administrative support staff in surgery.
GPs are responsible for running the practice, planning and providing treatment, and in England, commissioning health care from other health professionals.
Most patient records are now computerised.
Some GPs develop skills in specialist areas such as mental health, dermatology, diabetes, substance misuse or sexual health. Some GPs are beginning to use video links for patient diagnosis, especially in rural practices.
Full-time work for GPs is defined as 37.5 hours a week.
GP surgeries are generally modern and purpose-built.
There are over 40,000 GPs in the UK working under contract for the NHS.
Over 80 per cent of these doctors work as principals in GP practices.
The armed forces employ a small number of GPs.
Most GP practices use a deputising service for out-of-hours work and cover for periods of absence of practice doctors.
These deputising services employ GPs on both a full-time and part-time basis.
Some GPs may take on work outside the practice.
Others do advisory work for pharmaceutical companies, occupational health services, the Benefits Agency, as well as the police and prison service.
There are limited opportunities to work in postgraduate GP education.
Some GPs take on private patients to supplement their income. (Permalink)

HLSP Health and Life Sciences Partnership, working with us

2007-12-18: In the UK, HLSP is the fastest growing healthcare consultancy working to improve the design and delivery of health services. Asian Development Bank What does HLSP stand for? HLSP?s longstanding international experience in health systems development means we have the expertise to assist donors and governments working towards the MDGs. Another key factor in HLSP?s work is co-ordination. This health systems approach enables HLSP to engage with the challenges facing health in Africa and communicable diseases to maternal and neonatal health. Primary health care and family medicine HLSP has recently started work on a UNICEF funded project in Yemen. In China, HLSP?s core business is providing technical support to government and private health agencies through: Designing financial systems for hospitals and health centres to encourage access to quality health services by all communities. Our projects. HLSP has considerable experience working in aid management across the development sector, including aid instruments such as budget support and sector wide approaches. Approval audit trail specialist PH nursing: used to ensure an audit trail of assessment of programme approval requirements for specialist community public health nursing Programme approval report - specialist community public health nursing: template used to record the overall details and outcome of the approval visit In 2005, we established the HLSP Institute. The HLSP Institute? has taken over the work in these areas by the Institute for Health Sector Development (IHSD) which merged with HLSP in 2005. In August 2005, the previously separate health and health systems resource centres merged into a single Health Resource Centre that brings together the same array of public-health and health-systems knowledge and expertise. The HRC provides access to technical assistance and information in support of pro-poor health policies as well as health systems, service delivery and public health topics and programmes. The HRC is managed by a core team of health specialists, health systems specialists and administrative staff based in HLSP's London offices. Learning from Ghana's experiences in health insurance. Interested persons should apply to hlsp at http://www.hlsp.org/workingwithus/ (Permalink)