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Practice Administration

In addition to the topics shown below, some further topics relating to general administration can be found in the General Information section -

Access -

Adjusted Disease Prevalence Factor (ADPF) -

Advertising/marketing the Practice -

Agenda for Change -

Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) -

Business plans/business planning -

Charging patients -

Chip & Pin (setting up a system to accept payments by Chip & Pin cards) -

Choose and Book -

Choice -

Closing the Practice list -

Community Interest Companies/Social Enterprises (a method of structuring a PBC consortium) -

Continuity planning (also referred to as Contingency/Disaster/Recovery planning) -

Dispensing Practices and VAT -

Dispensing Services Quality Scheme -

Doctors from overseas - employing: information about visas, registration, work permits -

Extended opening hours -

Financial Procedures -

Flexible Career Scheme and Returners Scheme for GPs -

Funding under the GMS contract - BMA guidance -

GMS information -

GP Appraisal -

GP Recruitment (Partner or Salaried) -

GP Patient Survey (formerly known as the National Patient Experience Survey) -

GP Registrars - guidance on terms & conditions -

GPs working overseas (e.g. sabbaticals): BMA guidance -

Home visits - conditions are set out in para 3 of Schedule 6 of GMS Regulations -

Limited Companies/Limited Liability Partnerships - the pros and cons -

Local Improvements Finance Trust (NHS LIFT) -

Locums -

Miscellaneous practice management issues -

Notional rent/cost rent/rent reimbursement -

Partner retirement -

Partnership agreements -

Partnership/Partners Tax - HMRC information -

Personal Administration claims to PPA -

PFI - Private Finance Initiative -

Pharmacy White Paper "Pharmacy in England" - Dispensing Doctors Association Action Plan -

PMS information -

Practice based commissioning -

Practice leaflets -

Practice mergers -

Premises - new premises and premises development -

Private practice/private fees -

QMAS (Quality Management and Analysis System) -

QOF information -

Remote access to clinical systems: NHS/BT solution -

Renting out surgery space -

Revalidation of GPs: RCGP guidance - ; BMA guidance -

Salaried GPs - guidance on terms & conditions -

Specialist Provider Medical Services (SPMS) -

Staff pay/pay increments -

Travel vaccinations (charging for) -

VAT on medical reports -

Whitley scales - demise of, what are the alternatives? -