Journal

The twenty bookmarks that actually run UK general practice: guidance, medicines, safety alerts, referrals, professional bodies, appraisal, jobs and the tools between them.

Not another list of apps: one reliable resource for each job a UK GP actually does, from the clinical question to the referral, the appraisal, the job search and the locum admin.

The F3 year is now the norm, not the gap: locum, clinical fellow, teaching, research, travel or application year, how to choose, combine and plan one that compounds.

No training number after F2 is now a common outcome with many good routes: the realistic options for 2026, and the system for keeping your learning structured outside a programme.

Three job titles, one large and confusing market: what clinical fellow, trust grade and locally employed doctor actually mean, how they differ, and exactly what to check before acc...

Twenty-five real careers for doctors outside the traditional training track, from clinical fellowships to policy, each with entry route, reversibility and who it actually suits.

A practical, channel-by-channel plan for the newly qualified GP struggling to find work in 2026: define the problem, widen the funnel, work the invisible market, and stay professio...

Pay, pension, leave, indemnity, tax, autonomy and risk: an honest side-by-side of the three ways to work as a GP in 2026, with no pretend winner.

The uncertainty-to-evidence loop: how the questions FY1 generates every shift become answers, retained knowledge and portfolio entries, without any extra admin invented for the pur...

A genuinely generous map of the free resources that carry UK foundation doctors: guidance, medicines, education, procedures, calculators, portfolio, reasoning, wellbeing, pay and c...

The real first-month curriculum: 25 things about ward life, escalation, discharges and uncertainty that medical school never quite taught, and that every August FY1 learns fast.

Not 35 medical apps: a phone set up around the actual jobs of an FY1 day, from ward round to on call, with one good tool per job and nothing else.