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Useful websites for the Medical Practice Manager
Pop-up blockers (Windows XP, Google, Yahoo and others). If you have a pop-up blocker enabled, links to these websites may not open. So if you click on a link and nothing happens, hold down the Ctrl key and click the link again (holding the Ctrl key overrides the pop-up blocker).
AMSPAR
www.amspar.comAn organisation which supports the work of the Practice Manager through training and development and Practice Manager qualification by examination and assessment British Medical Association
www.bma.org.ukThe Trade Union and Professional Organisation for GPs Chief Medical Officer's website
www.dh.gov.uk/cmoInformation on key public health and clinical quality issues Clinical Governance
www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance
/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/Clinical
Governance/fs/en
Information about clinical governance in fairly simple terms Department of Health - primary care
www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/
OrganisationPolicy/PrimaryCare/fs/enPrimary care issues with a whole range of very relevant subjects for the Practice Manager - part of the DoH website Dispensing Doctors' Association
www.dispensingdoctor.orgA must-see website for all GP dispensing Practices FHS Appeals Authority
www.fhsaa.org.ukThe arbitrator of contractual and financial disputes between PCTs and Practices in England including appeals on patient complaints Glasgow LMC
www.glasgow-lmc.co.ukNews relating to Glasgow and the whole of Scotland GPSoC - GP Systems of Choice
www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
systemsandservices/gpsupport/gpsoc
The scheme through which the NHS will fund the provision of GP clinical IT systems in England Health Department Circulars
www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAnd
Statistics/LettersAndCirculars/fs/enAccess any current or past DoH circulars NHS Information Centre
www.ic.nhs.ukAn NHS Special Health Authority that collects, analyses and distributes national statistics on health and social care Information Commissioner
www.ico.gov.ukInformation about Data Protection - as well as links to other places on this subject Institute of Health Care Management (IHM)
www.ihm.org.ukAn organisation which has Practice Managers in its membership (albeit few in number) and looks at professional qualifications, training and support King's Fund
www.kingsfund.org.ukA training organisation and resource for undertaking "Organisation and Quality" work in general practice Londonwide LMCs
www.lmc.org.ukA wide range of information for Practice Managers Medical Defence Union
www.the-mdu.comMedical defence organisation Medical Protection Society
www.medicalprotection.org/ukMedical defence organisation National Association for Patient Participation
www.napp.org.ukAll you need to know if you are considering starting a patient participation group or similar National Association of Sessional GPs
www.nasgp.org.ukAn organisation providing information and support for GPs who are not in a partnership NHS Alliance
www.nhsalliance.orgAn independant organisation providing information and support to Primary Care Organisations NHS Confederation
www.nhsconfed.orgThe primary employers' umbrella organisation for all NHS Employing Authorities NHS Connecting for Health
www.connectingforhealth.nhs.ukNHS England national programme for IT NHS Counter Fraud Service
www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/fraudPrevention, detection and investigation of fraud and corruption NHS Direct
www.nhsdirect.nhs.ukNHS England website
www.nhs.ukNHS N. Ireland website
www.n-i.nhs.ukNHS Networks
www.networks.nhs.ukPromotes the many discussion networks which exist throughout the NHS NHS Prescription Services
www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/prescriptionsRemunerate and reimburse dispensing doctors across England NHS Scotland website
www.show.scot.nhs.ukNHS Wales website
www.wales.nhs.uk
www.primarycarecontracting.nhs.ukSupporting PCTs in England to assist the development of new local contracting arrangements in primary care PRIMIS+
www.primis.nhs.ukInformation about helping Practices and primary care organisations improve patient care through best use of computer systems Wessex LMCs
www.wessexlmcs.com/index.htmlThe Wessex LMCs website is full of useful information and is free to use Zero Tolerance Campaign
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_
dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en
/documents/digitalasset/dh_4054006Guidance about prevention and management of violence in the workplace We do not endorse any of the organisations listed above, and we cannot accept any responsibility for any dealings Practices may have with them.
