Here is a comprehensive checklist for a Practice Manager. Let me know if you can think of what can be added. EMail – snaptwig64@gmail.com

Ultimate GP Checklist 

Daily Activities 

o Telephone Switching on/off

o Alarms Systems on/off

o Appointments System – session updating

o Reorganise cancelled sessions.

o Annual Leave approval

  Sickness Absence Reports

o Managing clinical room allocation 

o Opening Post

o Opening emails

Weekly

o On-Call GP Rota

o Petty Cash Balances

o Monitor reading, actioning and scanning of clinical letters.

o Check uncollected prescriptions and patient letters.

o Review staffing rotas

o Practice Meetings, agendas, minutes, and reports

Monthly

o Monitor Overtime claims / TOIL

o Running Payroll

o Submit NHS Pension Contributions 

o Submit HMRC Employee/Employer contributions. 

o Submit PPA Prescribing Claims 

o GP Drawings Payments

o Creditors Payments

o Income banked including Debit card payment Machine

o Record of Private Income

o Reconcile Bank statements. 

o Update Practice Accounts 

o Monitor NHS Income statements. 

o CQC Policies – Updated as necessary. 

o Testing Fire and Panic alarms

o Participate in Primary Care Network activities as necessary.

Quarterly

o Practice List Size monitoring 

o Ensure new Patient Registrations submitted.

o QOF Review 

o NHS Claims submitted. 

Yearly

o Undertake Staff Appraisals

o Year end – close Payroll and transfer to financial new year

o Ensure National Living Wage increases applied

o Print or submit P60 / P32 / P11 

o Reconcile and Close Practice Accounts

o Stock Valuation – Vaccines

o Assess value of Debtors

o Ascertain unpresented cheques. 

o Petty Cash counted at year end.

o Practice Accounts to Accountant 

o GPs Personal Accounts to Accountant

o Review Staff Budget

o Staff Pay Review

o Annual Estimates of NHS Income

o Make any changes to GP Superannuation Shares required.

o Annual membership contributions return for employees NHS Pension

o Renew and agree any Enhanced Services Agreements

o Review DBS/CRB checks

o Review (long term) Business Plan

o Review and renew Employers Liability Insurance 

General – not time constrained

o Manage Passwords

o Ensure employment contracts up-to date.

o Fire and Evacuation Drills

o Manage GP Trainee Attachments

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Robert Campbell

By Robert Campbell
Robert Campbell

Started work writing medical cards in 1966 at Staffordshire Executive Council. Have worked at Inner London Executive Council, Hertfordshire Executive Council, Lambeth Southwark and Lewisham FPC, Birmingham FPC, Dudley FPC and Wakefield FPC and Family Health Services Authority. I was seconded to the NHS Appeals Unit and have worked as a full time GP practice manager since 1992 until 2010. I was also an AMSPAR trainer at Park Lane College, Leeds. Now I work as a freelance author.