App lists date quickly and mostly describe software; a working GP needs something different, one dependable answer per job, reachable in seconds, maintained as jobs change. This is that mapping: the tasks of real GP life, each with the resource that best serves it in 2026, ours included where it genuinely fits and named competitors where they win.
Clinical jobs
The clinical question, mid-consultation: askiatroX for a cited answer resolving directly into NICE, CKS, SIGN and SmPC guidance, with NICE CKS itself as the canonical destination when you want the full topic rather than the answer. The medication question: your medicines reference of choice for the working detail, the emc for the SmPC when the manufacturer's word is needed, and the local formulary for what you may actually prescribe. The skin question: PCDS, still the working dermatology reference of UK primary care. The referral: your local pathways and e-RS, because referral is a local act governed by local criteria. The specialist opinion short of referral: Advice & Guidance through e-RS, increasingly the expected first step and often the faster one. The calculation: a calculator every time, iatroX's 80+ or MDCalc, never mental arithmetic in clinic. Guideline updates: NICE's own alerts and newly published pages, skimmed on a schedule rather than encountered by accident. Prescribing safety updates: MHRA alerts and Drug Safety Update, the one feed with genuine ignore-at-your-peril status.
Professional jobs
CPD: the system that turns your real clinical questions into assessed, retained, documented learning, iatroX's My CPD for the assessed spine, with BMJ Portfolio as the free general store it exports into. Appraisal: FourteenFish or Clarity as your toolkit of record, fed by the above rather than by a March excavation; our comparison of that whole stack is at /blog/gpatlas-cpd-hub-vs-fourteenfish-iatrox. Professional advice and contracts: the BMA for employment, contractual and wellbeing support, and your LMC for the local, practical version of the same, the most underused resource on this page. Education: RCGP Learning and the Essential Knowledge Update cycle for College-badged currency.
Career and business jobs
The job search: NHS Jobs with tight alerts plus BMJ Careers for the salaried and partnership layer, and the local LMC lists where much real GP hiring actually happens; the full channel map is at /blog/where-doctors-find-jobs-uk-2026. Locum sessions: Lantum and the local locum networks for the work itself. Locum admin: NASGP's infrastructure, and a dedicated tool such as Locum Organiser, for the bookings, invoicing, pension forms and terms that constitute the business of being a locum. The employment climate itself, worth tracking in 2026: our series starting at /blog/why-are-gps-struggling-to-find-jobs.
The principle underneath the list
One resource per job, deliberately chosen, beats five per job ambientlly collected, because retrieval speed and trust are the actual currencies at the point of need. Review the mapping yearly, jobs change, tools change, and let anything that has not been opened in six months fall off. And notice the connective thread across the clinical and professional columns: the question you answer well today is worth answering permanently, which is what separates a toolkit that serves the day from one that builds the career; the loop that does that conversion is at /blog/general-practice-cpd-clinical-question-banks.
Frequently asked questions
What deserves a home-screen slot versus a bookmark?
Home screen: the sub-five-second needs, cited answers, calculators, local pathways, the medicines reference. Bookmarks: everything consulted weekly or less. The test is consultation-room reality, not importance in the abstract.
Where should a newly qualified GP start with this list?
With the clinical column complete before day one and the professional column within the first month; the dedicated version of this toolkit for the first post-CCT year is at /blog/newly-qualified-gp-toolkit-first-year-after-cct.
What about the jobs this list has no slot for, like safeguarding or complex prescribing queries?
They have owners rather than websites: the named safeguarding lead, the medicines-information pharmacist, the LMC office. Part of the toolkit is knowing which jobs are people-shaped, and keeping those numbers as findable as the bookmarks.
Should the whole practice standardise on one toolkit?
Loosely, yes: shared local-pathway bookmarks and a common calculator habit reduce variation where it matters, while personal preference can govern the rest. The quickest win is agreeing the referral-pathways bookmark set at a practice meeting; it saves every clinician the same ten minutes.
How does this toolkit differ for a locum GP?
Two additions carry the weight: the locum-admin slot becomes central rather than peripheral, and the local layer must be rebuilt per practice, which experienced locums systematise as a one-page induction sheet per site, systems, pathways, formulary quirks, requested on booking. The clinical column travels unchanged, which is rather its point.
What is the fastest way to audit my current setup against this?
List your last twenty working uncertainties, clinical, admin, career, and check each had a sub-thirty-second answer route; the misses are your toolkit gaps, ranked by frequency. Most GPs find two or three, usually in the referral-pathway and locum-admin columns.