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Sometimes in the course of the day as a GP, you may have occasional need to edit a drug chart (like palliative care drug doses) or change a document on EMIS. If you have printed out a drug chart then you could just write on the chart with pen, but you leave no auditable electronic trail. You could recreate the document but that may take up more time, and still may leave the wrong document up on the system. What I think is better is to edit a saved Word document on EMIS, which will leave a audit trail on the patients notes and hopefully minimise wasted time. Below is the process on how to edit a saved MS Word document on the patient notes on EMIS.  Have the patient consultation screen open and click on their documents tab.  On the document / drug chart you need to edit, right click to open up the menu and left click 'Edit'.  On the MS Word screen, do the edits that you need to.  Then click on the File button in the top left of the screen, and click 'Save As'. On the nex

One of the ways to become financially independent is to generate income whilst you sleep, passive income. The idea is that you invest either some time or money into a certain idea or thing, and that will generate income for you without any further time or effort. This is how generally the super rich, got super rich. People only have a finite time in which to earn (governed by how much you stay awake) so if you can earn whilst you sleep or do something else, that is the dream of many people I'm sure.

Since the pandemic, GP's have been under fire in the media for supposedly not seeing our patient's face to face, not understanding that most of the changes have come under direction of the higher authorities who requested we try other methods of primary care consulting given the covid pandemic. I can't speak for other practices, but in my area, face to face consultations were still going on if there was a clinical need following a telephone triage or online e-consult. E-consult is an online triage tool that many practices have used to increase access to primary care, there are many but e-consult is the one I am most familiar with. Patient's who complain may have likely forgotten pre-pandemic waiting times for a GP face to face appointment, which could sometimes be up to 3-4 weeks. In this current system, people can get a phone appointment on the day and have their issue resolved, or get a face to face consult within a few days of that if needed. The main difficulties h