GP Registrar Resources

This is a resource intended for GP Registrars (doctors who are training to be GPs), but it may also be helpful for others, such as GPs themselves or medical students.

We will try our best to keep this list updated, but cannot accept liability for any errors, or content on external websites.

Emergencies

NEWS2 National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2 – MDCalc Determines the degree of illness of a patient and prompts critical care intervention – often requested by NWAS to prioritise urgency of ambulance response.

Overdose

TOXBASE – poisons information database for clinical toxicology advice (requires a password. See your trainer or ask colleagues if needed).

Mental Health crisis

Crisis services | Mind, the mental health charity – help for mental health problems

Crisis line Liverpool 01512967200

Mental Health Toolkit (rcgp.org.uk)

Professional Bodies

British Medical Association Links to online learning, BMJ

Royal College of General Practitioners (rcgp.org.uk) links to portfolio, GP curriculum, BJGP

GMC Applying for specialist or GP registration – GMC (gmc-uk.org)

MDDUS https://www.mddus.com/

MPS Medical Protection Society

FourteenFish

Guidelines

Pan Mersey Formulary including the antibiotic formulary

NICE table for risk of serious illness in under 5s NG143 Traffic light tool (nice.org.uk)

Green Top Guidelines (rcog.org.uk) Obstetric and gynaecology guidelines

FRSH Standards & guidance – Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (fsrh.org) Links UKMEC and guidelines

NICE | The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (including links to CKS Clinical knowledge summaries, BNF and BNFc)

SIGN guidelines (sign.ac.uk)

MIMS Clinical tables, disease and medical condition | MIMS online subscription required for some of the resources

British Thoracic society guidance Guidelines | British Thoracic Society | Better lung health for all (brit-thoracic.org.uk)

British society of gastroenterologists Guidelines – The British Society of Gastroenterology (bsg.org.uk)

British society of rheumatologists Guidelines | British Society for Rheumatology

Greenbook Immunisation against infectious disease – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The Green Book has the latest information on vaccines and vaccination procedures, for vaccine preventable infectious diseases in the UK

Infection control advice for schools and other childcare settings Guidance_on_infection_control_in schools_poster.pdf (hscni.net)

Fraser guidelines Gillick competence and Fraser guidelines | NSPCC Learning

BAD British Association of Dermatologists – Clinical Guidelines (bad.org.uk) Useful guidelines and patient advice leaflets

DermNet NZ – All about the skin | DermNet NZ Really useful pictures to aid diagnosis

PCDS Concise guidance: National Primary Care Treatment and Referral Guidelines for Common Skin Conditions (pcds.org.uk) Approaching dermatology conditions from a primary care perspective

Psychiatry – information for patients and carers Mental health problems and disorders | Royal College of Psychiatrists (rcpsych.ac.uk)

Criteria based treatments Liverpool CCG – Criteria Based Clinical Treatments

Procedures of low clinical priority procedures-of-lower-clinical-priority-commissioning-policy-plcp-includes-fertility.pdf (liverpoolccg.nhs.uk)