General Practitioner Employment Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Provide consultations within agreed clinical sessions.
• Assess, diagnose and manage patients within competence.
• Prescribe and refer through approved systems.
• Maintain accurate contemporaneous patient records.
• Contribute to results, correspondence and continuity work.
• Maintain registration, appraisal and revalidation evidence.

A realistic working scenario

An urgent result arrives after the doctor's booked session for a patient who cannot be reached. The GP follows the practice's results and continuity procedure, recording attempts and clinical escalation.

Outputs to agree

• safe primary-care consultations
• timely prescriptions, referrals and follow-up
• complete clinical records and handovers

Records and evidence

• Consultation and assessment.
• Medicine and result action.
• Referral and follow-up.
• Significant event and learning.
• Patient records.
• Clinical notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Clinical Director, Lead GP, Practice Manager or Medical Director. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• The GP retains accountable clinical judgement within competence; resource allocation, partnership liabilities and practice policy changes require the designated governance route.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Clinical systems.
• Patient record systems.
• Prescribing systems where authorised.
• Diagnostic or treatment equipment where applicable.

Workplace context

• Clinical consultation rooms, treatment areas, wards or approved patient-facing premises.

Training and certification

• Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
• Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

• sessions and workload
• registration and appraisal
• clinical indemnity
• results, prescriptions and continuity

Information the employer should prepare

• the practice sites and session pattern
• the appointment and administrative workload
• the on-call and home-visit expectations
• the registration and indemnity arrangements
• the clinical system and information access
• the appraisal and study-leave provisions