Guidance

Prescribing
| Travel Health / Vaccinations
Patients Travelling Abroad – FAQs
Last Reviewed Date
24/08/2026

This guidance summarises current NHS and GOV.UK advice for general practice teams supporting patients travelling overseas.

Employment / Contracts / HR
| Fees / Charges
| Prescribing
Community Pharmacy – A Guide for GPs
Last Reviewed Date
17/08/2026

Community Pharmacies work, the funding streams and contracting arrangements and the requirements for being a community pharmacist

Education
| Prescribing
Consultation Educational Podcasts and Videos
Last Reviewed Date
08/07/2026

Educational podcasts and videos focusing on Consultations.

Don’t forget to log your learning points & reflections as part of your CPD. CQC are particularly keen to see any evidence of your learning and how you apply it

Prescribing
Injectable Weight Loss Drugs
Last Reviewed Date
07/07/2026

Injectable weight loss drugs have been brought to the UK market in the last few years including Semaglutide (Wegovy) launched in the UK on 4 September 2024 and Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) joining it a few months later.

Prescribing
Cannabis-Based Medicinal Products and Cancard
Last Reviewed Date
21/04/2026

The BMA offer guidance on cannabis-based medicinal products which details what constitutes a cannabis-based product for medicinal use, who can prescribe them, and under what circumstances.

Prescribing

Electronic Prescribing Service – Phase 4 was deployed from 18th November 2019, initially to TPP SystmOne following a pilot in 2018, and then to EMIS. It was enabled for the Vision and Microtest GP clinical systems in 2023.

Health and Safety
| Prescribing
| Urgent Care
The Doctors Bag
Last Reviewed Date
30/04/2025

What drugs should I carry or have accessible?

Prescribing
Pharmacy – Prescription Direction
Last Reviewed Date
07/08/2024

‘Prescription direction’ occurs where a patient is being directed by their GP practice to a certain pharmacy to have their prescription dispensed.