Doctors

As a GP, you'll typically need to:

• respond to patients' medical or health problems by referring to their history and carrying out diagnosis, investigation, treatment, and referral as appropriate
• maintain confidentiality and impartiality
• liaise with medical professionals in the community and hospitals
• promote health education in conjunction with other health professionals
• organise preventative medical programmes for individual patients
• provide specialist clinics for specific conditions or for certain groups, such as diabetes, smoking cessation and new babies
• meet targets set by the government for specific treatments, such as child immunisations
• discuss the development of new pharmaceutical products with pharmaceutical sales representatives
• carry out a range of administrative work, including signing repeat prescriptions, death certificates and fitness for work statements, as well as preparing letters and reports
• attend staff meetings
• keep up to date with medical developments, new drugs, at medical schools or hospitals.  treatments and medications, including complementary medicine
• observe and assess the work of trainee GPs and medical students and teach