Author: Joe Admin

Send your availability to anyone

Do you know that using your GP account, you can very easily send a Personal Availability Calendar to anyone you like?

There are 4 simple steps:

1. Login and goto your Profile tab

The GP Profile tab

2. Scroll down and set the ‘Publicise my availability’ option to ‘Yes’

3. Copy the link in the box below this Option and click the ‘update’ button at the bottom of the page

The publicise your availability option

4. Email the link you copied to anyone you like (note: your notes are not shown)

GP availability calendar

Try sending the link to yourself. Logout of GPnetworks first, then click the link in your email to see what others will see.

How to request and book a GP with the GPnetworks system

Using the GPnetworks system to Request and book a doctor brings many advantages. Its time saving, it creates an auditable schedule and history for both parties, it allows us to keep GPs availability bang up to date and it ensure highly usable, formal communication between GPs and Practices.

There is only one simple method to requesting and booking a doctor, via the system:

  • You look through the Calendar of GP availability, clicking GP names that show availability for the session(s) you require
  • When you are in the GP details screen, you can click on any session of availability in their Personal calendar and a little Request box appears that allows you to input details of your request
  • Specify the start and end times you require and optional fees and any notes and click the button to send the Request to the GP
  • This places an entry into your Schedule screen and sends the GP a Request notification (placing an entry into their schedule too)
  • When they respond you will get an email notification and the entry in your Schedule will change color to match the response
  • If the GP response was positive (an acceptance), you then come back to your Schedule and cancel or Confirm the session
  • On Confirm, both parties get a notification, practices are sent the GPs professional documents and both parties Schedules are modified to reflect the new status of the Request
  • The GPs availabaility is modified to reflect the change
  • GPs also get a reminder the day before the booked session

NHS Superannuation Changes – NHS pension scheme

Posted to GPnetworks by a locum GP

It seems that with the final dismantling of pcts, the mechanism for
involvement in the NHS pension scheme will change for GP locums from next
April.
Currently, we pay the tiered employee contribution and the pct adds the
employer contribution.
The government proposal is that the employing practices will now be
responsible for the latter. The money for this will be added to the global
sum.

I am worried that practices will not be keen on this and won't like the
extra cost/administration involved.This may be a big cost for practices who
use locums a lot. It may be difficult for locums to remain competitive and
remain in pension scheme.

I am interested what other colleagues think...
Published
Categorized as Discussion

NHS Superannuation Changes – NHS pension scheme

Posted to GPnetworks by a locum GP

It seems that with the final dismantling of pcts, the mechanism for
involvement in the NHS pension scheme will change for GP locums from next
April.
Currently, we pay the tiered employee contribution and the pct adds the
employer contribution.
The government proposal is that the employing practices will now be
responsible for the latter. The money for this will be added to the global
sum.

I am worried that practices will not be keen on this and won't like the
extra cost/administration involved.This may be a big cost for practices who
use locums a lot. It may be difficult for locums to remain competitive and
remain in pension scheme.

I am interested what other colleagues think...
Published
Categorized as Discussion

Professional & peer support for GP Clincal Systems

We are very very very excited to announce the birth of our GP Clinical Systems Support forum!

Accessible via facebook and integrated directly into GP accounts on GPnetworks, this provides a growing knowledge base of Clinical System support and a means to get instant help with specific issues.

As well as this, if you are knowledgeable about a particular Clinical system, you can even help others !

http://apps.facebook.com/gp-clinical-systems