Hours: Six sessions per week Wednesday to Friday plus equitable shares of home visits and on-call duties. A session is 4 hours 10 mins. Duty doctor cover is required every Thursday. As duty doctor you will be expected to be present from 8am until 6.30pm. Main purpose of the role: To support the GP partners, to manage a busy and interesting clinical caseload. The GP will also have the opportunity to take part in leading on key disease areas (monitoring trends in treatment, staff training and prescribing) and assist in developing appropriate healthcare services for a diverse patient list in a PMS practice. Clinical responsibilities: In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make him/her-self available to undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations and emergencies, telephone consultations and queries, triaging, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, patient test results, patient medical reports and examinations (e.g. Insurance Companies) on behalf of the Practice, referral letters NHS/private, paperwork and correspondence in a timely manner; Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation; Recording clear and contemporaneous I.T. based consultation notes to agreed standards; Collecting data for audit purposes; and to complete one prescribing audit annually as chosen by the practice. Out-of-hours (OOH)-as the business requires Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible); Prescribing in accordance with locally agreed or national guidelines and within practice agreed formulary. To manage care plan list, writing and reviewing care plans and patients in accordance with current EoLC requirements In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care. Duty doctor PM triage appointments and medically urgent appointments should be used as part of the surgery as clinically indicated. Other responsibilities with the Practice: Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF Assessment of the Practice. A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice; Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation; Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records;