We're pleased to reveal that we will soon be launching our refreshed FPM Group newsletter.

Another month is about to begin, which means even more Awareness Days are on the horizon. Take a look at what is coming up this month and click below to download a PDF.

If you’re dealing with any of the following, then it might be time to rethink your approach to policies and regulatory compliance  — and bring in a system that works for you...

The latest GP Patient Survey has now been published. Whilst some scores improved and others declined, one score stayed the same between 2024 and 2025 - that of how helpful patients found GP receptionists.

The NHS’s 10-Year Plan, Fit for the Future, launched in July 2025, and updated September 2025, promises transformation: more prevention, less hospitalisation, better digital infrastructure, and stronger community care. But beneath the ambition lies a structural flaw—one that no oversight, framework or winter planning letter can fix.

On Friday, 10th October 2025, the UK will join the global community in observing World Mental Health Day, a vital annual event dedicated to raising awareness, reducing stigma, and promoting mental wellbeing.

In our new regular report, FPM looks in detail at what the CQC have reported from their GP practice inspections during September 2025. Using publicly available reports on the CQC website, we highlight some of the behaviours that won practices Outstanding ratings, and the reasons some practices were scored Requires Improvement, or Inadequate. Do you recognise any of the observations the CQC picked up, either good or bad? Do you think the CQC's findings are fair?

There’s a name for that feeling you get sometimes; the one where you don’t quite believe you deserve your success, or that you haven’t quite earned the right to be in a certain position. Maybe you aren’t actually as good as others think you are, or aren’t really capable or competent to lead a team/publicly speak on a topic/train others in an area you are penned as an expert in?