Anyone working in general practice would not disagree that there are significant challenges, with an increasing workload, an ageing population, and increasingly complex medical problems being diagnosed and managed. In addition, the significant underinvestment of staff working in primary care compared with the secondary care sector is now manifesting in problems associated with GP and general practice nurse (GPN) recruitment and retention (Primary Care Workforce Commission, 2015).
In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Binkie Mais, considers patient care and asks...
General practice nurses (GPNs) and GPs alike report high levels of stress and burnout, with the relentless demand for 10-minute appointments and reviews leaving both clinicians and patients dissatisfied. We have worked this way for so long, it is hard to imagine an alternative. Yet, there is one — and it is causing a quiet revolution across the country.
In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball, looks at the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and asks What will Brexit mean for GPNs?
In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Louise Ross, stop smoking service manager, Leicester, looks at: Nicotine: time for a rethink?
In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Binkie Mais asks...
How can we stop Britain from being ‘the fat man of Europe’?
Despite numerous public health campaigns encouraging us to drink and smoke less, eat more healthily and take-up some form of exercise, the UK population is still facing an obesity epidemic. Indeed, one in four British adults are said to be obese, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and, if current trends are not reversed, more than half the population could be obese by 2050.
In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Binkie Mais asks...
Is it time to accept that there is a crisis in the GPN workforce?
Over the past 12 months, this journal has repeatedly raised the topic of the general practice nurse (GPN) workforce crisis
(Lane, 2015; Moger, 2015; Storey, 2015). Now, with the publication of the findings from the Queen’s Nursing Institute’s GPN survey (QNI, 2016), concerns around dwindling numbers, lack of capacity to meet increasing demand, poor uptake of newly qualified nurses into primary care, etc have been reinforced by a barrage of evidence from those of you working on the ground (over 3,400 GPNs participated in the survey, i.e. 15% of the entire workforce).
In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a hot topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Pete Lane, clinical lead, Advanced Training Practice (ATP) Scheme, looks at the falling numbers of first generation general practice nurses and makes...Three wishes to secure the future of the GPN workforce
Practice matters: In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a hot topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Binkie Mais looks at patient participation groups (PPGs) and asks the question...Are clinicians taking patient involvement seriously enough?
Practice matters: In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a hot topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Binkie Mais looks at how GPNs are placed in new models of care and asks the question...Can the GPN workforce meet the challenge of increased demand?
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