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Is your practice ready for improvement?

11 September 202214 February 2020

My experience has shown me the two most important features in context are time and teamwork. Getting your whole team together to focus on an area of work, where everyone gets to input their thoughts can be very helpful.

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My experience of being a GP Research Fellow

11 September 20226 January 2020

Dr Nicholas Fernandez writes about his experience as a GP Research Fellow and explains why research is a great opportunity to not only design change but evidence the reason for that change.

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Undertaking clinical research in General Practice

11 September 20221 November 2019

Dr Omair Razzaq writes about his surgery’s involvement in clinical research and his hopes for developing treatments and helping advancements in the medical world.

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Why become a GP or primary care researcher?

11 September 202225 September 2019

In this article Jane Wilcock, GP, educator and researcher at Silverdale Medical Centre Salford writes about her experience as a GP researcher, not funded and doing research in her own time.

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CPRD/RCGP QI Patient Safety Reports

11 September 202229 March 2019

On 2017 I signed our practice, Lockside Medical Centre to CPRD, a research initiative, funded by MHRA/NIHR, that routinely collects anonymised patient data from practices to support innovative public health research. Though my motives were initially altruistic, signing up turned out to bring other benefits.

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This is Manchester, we do things differently here

11 September 202214 September 2018

“This is Manchester, we do things differently here”, how often in recent months has that quote by Tony Wilson been referenced? But when it comes to supporting General Practice in Greater Manchester it definitely applies.

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    • Dental Provider Board
    • Healthy Living Dentistry
      • What is Healthy Living Dentistry?
      • Roles and training
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      • Digital First Primary Care Programme
        • DFPC in numbers
        • Meet the team
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        • Agreeing intent
        • Health check
        • Preparing for change
        • The patient journey
      • How to develop your digital channels
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        • Diagnose
        • Plan and test
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        • Sustain
      • Research
        • Become an academic GP
        • Boost your income through research
        • Engage your patients
        • Leading your PCN
        • Quick and easy
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      • Support
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      • PCN Development Programme
      • PCN Leadership Programme  
      • Primary Care Leadership Programme  
      • Place-based GP Board Development Programme 
      • Proactive Care
    • PCN health inequalities data
    • Sustainability in general practice
    • Working with community pharmacy
      • Patient-led ordering
      • Hypertension Case Finding Advanced Service
  • Optometry
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    • Optometry Excellence
    • Optometry extended services
    • Sustainability in optometry
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