Every GP's browser accumulates hundreds of bookmarks and uses about twenty. Here are the twenty, chosen against one criterion: sites a working UK GP genuinely returns to, each with the job it does. Set them up once, in folders matching the jobs, and the browser becomes a tool rather than a junk drawer.
Clinical guidance
- NICE CKS: the working reference of UK primary care, topic by topic, and the first stop for the consultation-room question. 2. NICE: the guidance itself, for thresholds, pathways and the exact wording when it matters. 3. SIGN: the Scottish guideline library, valuable well beyond Scotland for its methodology and coverage. 4. askiatroX (iatrox.com): the fast route into all of the above, natural-language questions answered with citations resolving directly to NICE, CKS, SIGN and SmPC sources; free, and the citation trail is the point.
Medicines and safety
- The emc: the summaries of product characteristics, the definitive licensed detail on every drug. 6. SPS (Specialist Pharmacy Service): the practical medicines-use guidance the questions in between guidelines actually need. 7. MHRA Drug Safety Update: the one feed with mandatory-attention status; safety alerts land here first. 8. Your local formulary and antimicrobial guidance: local law for prescribing, wherever your ICB hosts it.
Referral and pathways
- e-RS: referrals and, increasingly importantly, Advice & Guidance, the specialist opinion short of a referral. 10. Your ICB's local pathways site: referral criteria, two-week-wait forms, community services; the bookmark that saves the most daily minutes. 11. PCDS: primary-care dermatology's working reference, images included.
Professional bodies and support
- The BMA: contracts, employment rights, wellbeing support, and currently the central resource on GP un- and underemployment. 13. Your LMC: the local, practical version of professional support, job lists included; the most underused bookmark on this page. 14. The RCGP: standards, curriculum, and RCGP Learning with the Essential Knowledge Update cycle. 15. The GMC: registration, revalidation requirements and good-practice guidance, consulted rarely and needed precisely then.
Appraisal and CPD
- FourteenFish (or Clarity, per your setup): the appraisal toolkit of record. 17. BMJ Portfolio: the free CPD store, with AI reflection support and FourteenFish export. 18. iatroX My CPD: the assessed-learning layer, question sessions, Tutor corrections and retests packaged as appraisal-ready evidence; how the whole stack fits together is at /blog/gpatlas-cpd-hub-vs-fourteenfish-iatrox.
Career and reference
- NHS Jobs (with BMJ Careers alongside): the advertised GP jobs market, alerts on; the full search map is at /blog/where-doctors-find-jobs-uk-2026. 20. GPnotebook: the quick-reference habit much of UK general practice still runs on, one click from a topic summary.
Making twenty work as one system
Three folders, matching real life: In-consultation (1-11), the sub-ten-second needs; Professional (12-18), the weekly-to-quarterly layer; Career (19-20 plus your locum platforms if relevant). Review annually and prune without sentiment, and let the in-consultation folder earn its order by actual frequency of use. The deeper version of this list, organised by task rather than site, is at /blog/gp-digital-toolkit-one-resource-every-job.
Frequently asked questions
Why is a paid appraisal toolkit on a bookmarks list when free options exist?
Because the appraisal itself runs through it for most GPs, free capture layers export into it, they do not replace it, and pretending otherwise would make this list tidier and less true.
What did not make the twenty?
Plenty of good sites that duplicate a job already covered, and everything consulted less than quarterly. The list's value is its ruthlessness; add back only what your own usage data argues for.
Which three earn the browser toolbar itself?
CKS, your local pathways site and askiatroX: the three consulted mid-appointment, where seconds count. The rest live one folder deep without cost.
Why is GPnotebook here when askiatroX and CKS are too?
Different retrieval styles for different moments: GPnotebook's terse topic pages suit the two-second orientation, CKS the full picture, askiatroX the specific cited answer. Most working GPs use two of the three daily, and the bookmark costs nothing.
What is missing from this list by design?
Anything requiring your trust or ICB login to even render, since those live in the local layer, and the social platforms, which are community rather than reference. The communities matter, they are simply a different shelf: /blog/digital-operating-system-uk-doctor-2026.
How should a GP registrar's version of this list differ?
Barely, which is the argument for building it now: add the RCGP's curriculum and exam pages plus your deanery's site, and the remaining eighteen transfer into independent practice untouched. Registrars who arrive at CCT with this infrastructure already habitual describe the transition as administratively boring, the correct outcome.
Any advice on keeping logins from defeating the bookmarks?
A password manager, set up once, is the difference between twenty bookmarks and twenty obstacles: half of these sites gate their value behind accounts, and friction is why good resources go unused. Pair it with staying signed in on your own devices for the daily tier, and the whole list becomes genuinely one click.