Niche GP Initiative
Looking for a different way of working? The Niche GP initiative can help
What is GP Niche Working?
Any GP work outside of the traditional GP model of consulting a patient in a booked/triaged surgery. Some examples of Niche working
- Medical administration work – Path results, patient letters, SMR’s, medical reports, admin holiday buddy
- Supervisory work – Physiotherapist, paramedics, pharmacists, other ARRS roles
- Defined clinical work: management of patient cohorts with specific clinical conditions – PCN IFF initiatives, high risk drug monitoring, specific patient cohorts e.g. baby checks, LD, dermatology, LARC, care home management
- Practice governance work – Governance, complaints management, audits, SoPs, appraisals, specific projects
What are the benefits of Niche working?
What are the benefits of Niche working?
- Become part of a portfolio career
- Offer an opportunity to rebalance workload
- Offer a different way of working in your career to improve work/life balance
- Provide a different pathway for those in the latter parts of their career
For a GP Practice niche working can:
- Aid recruitment by making Niche working part of your employment offer and increasing the attractiveness of your practice to GPs.
- Help retain current GPs – those looking to leave/later career
- Broaden the range of GP roles within your practice – helping to reduce backlogs of administrative work; reduce the workload on partners and other members of the practice team; increase opportunities to access/employ ARRS colleagues; impact of quality of care and QOF.
- Contribute to the new Quality Improvement workforce and wellbeing indicator
Medical Administration work
Path results, patient letters, SMR’s, medical reports, admin holiday buddy
Help to reduce backlogs of administrative workPotential for remote working removing reliance on room capacity
Supervisory work
Physio, paramedics, pharmacists, other ARRS roles
Releasing burden on partners & other members of the practice teamIncreasing opportunity to employ/access ARRS
Defined clinical work: management of patient cohorts with specific clinical conditions
PCN IFF initiatives, high risk drug monitoring, specific patient cohorts e.g. baby checks, LD, dermatology, LARC, care home management
Increasing QOF impactImproving quality of care
Practice governance work
Governance, complaints management, audits, SoPs, appraisals, specific projects
Releasing burden on partners & other members of the practice teamImproving quality
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