In accordance with the Practice rota, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organization Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness In consultation with patients and in line with current Practice disease management protocols, developing care plans for health Providing counselling and health education Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes using clinical system templates, Read Coding non-template entries or otherwise recording to agreed standards Collecting data for audit purposes Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions Prescribing in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate Deal with all NHS paperwork for own patient list plus a share of that of the other GPs (as needed, during holidays or other absences) whilst building the post-holders own list i.e., results, letters, forms, scanned documents Proactively manage patients to ensure that Quality & Outcome Framework targets are achieved or any other government required initiatives as requested by the partners In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.