Here at FPM we have been involved in Practice Manager remuneration one way or another for many years. In our recruitment work with practices, on our advice line and from Practice Managers directly, we handle a stream of questions about the appropriate remuneration level...
The Löfstedt review of health and safety legislation in November 2011 recommended that the requirement for portable appliance testing under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 should be clarified to stop over-compliance. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...
The lack of definitive guidance on Chaperones in general practice has resulted in a wide variation across practices in the way they identify the need for a chaperone and how any policy is implemented. Results from a 2009 survey showed the following rather surprising results...
The Health and Safety Executive has issued updated guidelines relating to the reporting of incidents in health and social care environments and associated compliance with the Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)...
New to your role? Steve Morris, once a newly appointed Practice Manager himself, provides some hints and tips. If this is your first appointment as a Practice Manager and if, like many other new appointments to this role, you have had no experience to the NHS then welcome to general practice...