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A new initiative aimed at retaining the services of senior GPs – and boosting new recruits to the profession – has been launched in Suffolk and north east Essex. The GP Support Hub hopes to attract newly qualified medics into choosing a career in general practice rather than opting to...

The Suffolk GP Federation’s January newsletter is now available: Hospitals running general practice. Fed CQC inspection. West First5 meeting info. Out of Hours update. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome service update. GP Advice hub successes. To read the newsletter, please click here

We have started auditing 1% of consultation notes to review quality. This will also be a requirement when we start Out of Hours. The first audit looked at 54 consultations. The audit looks at various indicators such as excluding red flags, elicits reason for consultation, records-past medical history, records-examination findings,...

The December newsletter from the Suffolk GP Federation is now available. Learn more about the upcoming Fed elections, the Suffolk Locum service, the GP Support Hub and much more. Read the newsletter here.

Suffolk GP Federation Newsletter – November 2018 Out of Hours latest Suffolk Podiatry Practice foot-education programme SPC and practice collaboration GP+ Learning Ultrasound To read the newsletter, please click here.

The Winter edition of the Christmas Maltings and Clements newsletter is now available. Patients can learn more about the new GP joining the practice and receive further information on the community ultrasound service now available. There is also a reminder of the measures the practice has to take during the...

The Winter edition of the Kirkley Mill Surgery newsletter is now available. Patients can find out more about the important changes being made to the way the practice operates from the 2 January. Read the Winter newsletter

If you need an appointment to see a doctor after work, at the weekend or over a Bank Holiday in Mildenhall and Sudbury then now you can. It’s all thanks to the Suffolk GP Federation, which is spreading the reach of its GP+ extended hours service for people in those...

Suffolk GP Federation Newsletter – October 2018 Out of Hours latest GP+ expansion Physios as part of multi disciplinary teams Working for the Fed Updates from across the county To read the newsletter, please click here.

A Suffolk GP has praised patients and colleagues after hanging up her stethoscope following almost two decades of caring for her local community. Dr Fiona Andrews is retiring from her role at Suffolk GP Federation’s Christmas Maltings and Clements Practice in Haverhill. She has been at the surgery for 17...