The appointments page on your practice website – a masterclass

Lessons to help you get it right It’s crucial to get the appointments page right on your GP practice website. Most patients go straight to this page to get help, even if the care they end up receiving isn’t a traditional face-to-face consultation with a GP. Tim Green* explains how to set up your appointments […]

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Tell your patients about accessing their (prospective) future health records

Prepare a news item There may be press coverage about patients being able to access their medical records from 1st November. You might like to write a short news article about this with a link to the NHS page to save you answering lots of questions from patients. See this article on how to write […]

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1 September deadline dropped for GP data opt-outs

Following the negative backlash to the announcements around GP data extraction from both general practice and patients earlier this year, the Government has issued a carefully worded statement to try and reassure general practice that their concerns have been heard.  The statement removes any specific date for the data extraction to start. Importantly the September 1st deadline for patients to […]

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Will your practice beat the website accessibility deadline?

There’s a deadline approaching for GP practices to meet new government accessibility requirements. By 23 September all practices should be working towards making their websites easier to use for everyone, regardless of any disability. This means, for example, making sure that any images on your website have alternative text that describes their function for visually […]

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Using your practice website for patient signposting and self care

All GP practices are looking at ways of helping their patients choose the right service. At GPsurgery.net we’ve been looking at how our websites can help our GP practice clients help their patients get the right care from the right people. We’ve developed two new buttons – labelled ‘Who do I see?’ and ‘Self care’ […]

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