Issue 4, Spring 2008

It is impossible to do everything, but it is always possible to do the most important things – this was Your Practice’s approach over the last year. As we celebrate our first birthday this spring, we have taken a retrospective glance through our previous issues. From the blossoming role of the nurse prescriber to how to deal with workplace stress, we have attempted to cover relevant and interesting topics that affect our readers. The latest edition is no exception.

Experienced risk manager Julie Wilson has seen the prescribing habits of hundreds of practices; she asks the ultimate question “how safe is your prescribing procedure?”  Read about the situation of Mrs Good, an elderly patient who is caught in the middle of a web of prescribers. Read her top tips for dealing with this tricky situation.

Changing and improving is a running theme. Dr Robin Chesters talks to us about his decision to leave his partnership and become a locum GP in Portsmouth. How to improve and meet ever-changing targets is tackled at the MPS GP conference on June 27 in Birmingham. The Your Practice team will be there to cover the event. All this, and we haven’t even mentioned our competition to win a Harrods hamper.

Sara Williams, Editor