A day in the life of a GP Partner

8:15 am : Drive in to work, grab a quick coffee and join the partners and manager for practice meeting. Damn....late by 5 minutes

9:20 am : Meeting finshes....topics included a new patient survey, admin staff retirement and resignation, new salaried GP payscale, problems with the new building, tax bill, etc...all in all this was an intensive meeting

9:20 to 12:30 pm : patients...the usual suspects

1:00 pm : visit-  one today

1:50 pm : back from visit, sign prescritions, sign tax return, lease papers, look at a complaint letter, check pathology results 

2:30 pm: hungry...heat lunch and eat whilst chatting with colleagues 

3:00 pm: patients....the usual suspects ( and some unusual ones)

5:30 pm: sign prescriptions, change patient survey, talk to Nurse Practitioners baout 2 cases

6:00 pm : go through scanned letters, make a couple of referrals, send tasks to admin staff about results, etc

6:45 pm : document afternoon visit

6:50 pm : 2 reports to do

7:00 pm : one report done, too tired to do the other one

7:05 pm : Drive home

This was a quiet day...no emergencies, nothing went wrong.....