​Social media describes web-based applications that allow people to create and exchange content.

This includes blogs and microblogs (such as Twitter), internet forums (such as doctors.net), content communities (such as YouTube and Flickr), and social networking sites (such as Facebook and LinkedIn).

Consider how your use of social media complies with GMC guidance.
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Guidance on the use of social media (GMC 2013)
Guidance on the use of social media (BMA 2011)
Fictitious composite case study (GMC January 2016)

It can be difficult to do a meaningful audit if you are a locum because you don't know when, if ever, you will be returning to a practice to complete the cycle.

Here's a simple audit any locum can do.
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Keep a record of each drug prescribed and why (ready-made spreadsheet).

Compare what was prescribed with the local formulary. 
Which percentage of prescriptions were in line with the local formulary?

NB if you use no patient identifiers then you can safely take the data from place to place without needing to register with the Information Commissioner.

New version published 27th March 2017.
1 page guide.
"Keep It Short and Simple"
"Reflections are essential"

"This framework encompasses:

• the process for considering applications and decision making for inclusion, inclusion with conditions and refusals to be undertaken by NHS England’s regional teams
• the process by which teams identify, manage and support primary care performers where concerns arise; and
• the application of NHS England’s powers to manage suspension, imposition of conditions and removal from the performers lists."

"​This guidance sets out the main channels along which information about a doctor’s medical practice may need to flow, in support of good medical governance and the statutory duties of the responsible officer and in support of patient safety and quality of care."