General Practitioner CKMP

Overview

The role involves clinical duties within the practice timetable, including a proportionate share of responsibilities in primary care as part of a GP team.

• undertake a proportionate share of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care
• specific responsibility for agreed clinical areas;
  Lead GP will discuss and allocate
• awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• a commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate
• be a member of the clinical team, attend clinical, education or business meetings and other meetings as appropriate and maintain close personal working relationships
• seek ways to reduce waste, water and energy usage within the office

• Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety