This week, Rachael speaks to Rajat who is a GP in a local surgery. The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world with 1.4 million staff in England and deals with more than one million patients every 36 hours. We discuss the different places a GP can work, what a GP does outside of just seeing patients and the key factors to consider when choosing the right surgery for you. Rajat also explains how a surgery is run as a business, what the most important skills to be a good GP are and what it takes to become qualified as a GP. Rajat was extremely humble and anyone listening to this episode will no doubt appreciate the hard work that GP’s undertake. 

Useful Links:

Read ‘a day in the life of a GP’: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/gp-day-in-the-life 

Read ‘a day in the life of a GP’ from the British Medical Journal https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4388 

The Royal College of General Practitioners: https://www.rcgp.org.uk/ 

Follow Dr Ranj who is a well known doctor: https://www.instagram.com/drranj/?hl=en 

Follow Dr Hazel Wallace as The Food Medic: thefoodmedic.co.uk 

New England Journal of Medicine Podcast: https://www.nejm.org/multimedia/audio-summary

British Medical Journal Podcast: https://journals.bmj.com/sites/default/files/podcasts/index.html