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During the Covid-19 lockdown, the NHS was doing some big deals. One such deal was with Microsoft to provide all their staff with Office 365. This includes their email services but also 1TB cloud storage, video-conferencing software and importantly their suite of Office programs. This includes their well known MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. This was agreed from the 15th June 2020 and will last until April 2023, though hopefully longer.  Those who have used these suite of programs recently may already know, but if you want to use the latest edition of Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you will now need an ongoing subscription. There is no longer a yearly release of these programs that you would purchase as a one-off, now you purchase a Microsoft 365 subscription that will allow you to download the newest edition of these programs. This allows you to use the online, desktop or mobile office apps. Personal subscriptions start at £59.99/year but with this NHS collaboration with Micros...

GPs can earn extra money through many different means. One of the most popular ways is to work in Out Of Hours (OOH) or UCC in your local area. These are usually run by groups of GPs or private healthcare companies (Care UK). Most new GP trainees will have done an OOH shift when training but here I'll try breakdown what working life is like for OOH/UCC. OOH is operational when the GP surgeries close (usually 1830) until they reopen again on 08:00 on a weekday. Over the weekend that is 18:30 Friday until 08:00 Monday. Patient's call 111 and if they get triaged for a GP call, they will put onto a central list on the GP's computer screen. They are then called back by the GP who will then try manage the patient - either on the phone, bring them down for face-to-face consultation, schedule a home visit or refer them to A+E. The GP may be the one who is doing the face-to-face consultation or do the home visit. GPs working OOH may be done in a section of a hospital or a...

Following on from my guide on how to install EMIS at home , here is a short guide on how to install other useful programs on your home computer. Best to be on the VPN when installing and running these programs. AccuRx Download and  Install AccuRx installer from here . Log in with normal password, should just work as normal.If not, you can follow the guide here . You will need to open it when you have EMIS open for it to sync with your selected patient. Alternatively you can use the standalone web site which has all the features in the browser - Fleming . However if is a bit more time consuming and it also doesn't save into the notes automatically nor automatically select the correct patient. 

With Covid19, we're trying to reduce footfall into the surgery and trying to send things out to patients. Sick notes are a big administrative reason why patient's come into the surgery. One way of reducing foot-fall is send them the sick notes electronically.  Here is a guide on how to sign and send sick notes electronically on Emis Web but the same will apply to most patient management software like Vision and System1.  Creating the Sick Note Once inside the patient's record, create your sick note as you normal would. Before you print, you must press 'Preview'. When it comes to printing, change the printer to 'Print to PDF' which is an option in Windows 10. If you don't have this option, you will have to install another Print to PDF option, I recommend  Cute PDF  which does this as well and is easy to set up.  The reason why you must press preview is that EMIS can crash if you just print it straight away without previewing it first. The preview screen...

Due to Covid19, a lot of GPs have had to do more home working / remote access. A few GPs got given laptops with all the software included, but in my experience, the laptops can be a bit hit-and-miss. I thought I'd do a guide on how to setup home working on either your PC or Mac. I'm assuming you have set up Windows Bootcamp on your Mac, but if you haven't I will post another guide on how to Bootcamp your Mac. You will need: -           Certain files contained in here . -           Card reader or keyboard with card reader - the one below is very commonly used (affiliate link): -           Smartphone (optional) -           Windows 10 (may work on earlier windows though haven’t tried) -         ...