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GP vacancies and GP jobseekers are not in the same places; how to read the public jobs data, what it can and cannot show, and the regional dynamics that decide where the work actua...

Unemployment, underemployment and preference mismatch are three different problems; here is what workforce statistics, BMA surveys and contract data actually show about GP employme...

The NHS needs more GPs and many GPs cannot find the work they want: an objective explanation of how demand, funding structures, practice economics and the ARRS produced this parado...

NHS Jobs, Trac, Oriel, BMJ Careers, Lantum, LinkedIn and the rest do different jobs; a straight comparison of the UK's doctor job sites and which each is actually best for.

Training posts, trust jobs, GP roles, locums, teaching and research are found in different places; here is the actual map of where UK doctor jobs live in 2026, by route and career ...

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...

You do not need to memorise medicine wholesale, but some knowledge must be reflex: the honest line between what an FY1 must know cold and what looking up is exactly right for.

The difference between a vague worry and an answerable question is a learnable structure: problem representation, SBAR, your uncertainty stated, and what you have already done.

What to prepare before your first medical on call: the setup, the common bleeps, the assessment habit, and the escalation discipline that keeps new doctors and their patients safe.

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.