GP returners scheme - do you know someone who might be interested?

If you’re a GP looking to return to General Practice work in Scotland after a career break or working abroad, there’s a fast & funded pathway back to frontline GP work via the Scotland Deanery’s GP Returner Programme.

If eligible, you’ll receive a salary while completing the clinical knowledge & practice-based assessments required to re-join a Health Board’s Performers List.

One year’s free RCGP membership is also available to GPs on the Returner Programme. Watch our video of Dr Liza Stolton, who successfully returned to General Practice through the programme, and visit our website to access more information about eligibility, what to expect from the assessments and how to reapply to a Performers List .

http://www.scotlanddeanery.nhs.scot/your-development/gp-induction-and-returner-programmes/scotland-gp-returner-programme/?fbclid=IwAR0LfX4b7qKNSC3b33btSQdwTOdMkLCkWnEBW2eJkNVvJJ6EtH0HcPkzFEU

The Golden Spurtle...

                     

                      

The highland village of Carrbridge hosted World Porridge Making Championships on the 6th October 2018. The village nestles within the scenic Cairngorms National Park with a spectacular backdrop of the Monadhliath Mountains and enhanced further by a sprinkling of glorious autumnal weather the competition was already off to a great start.  

This year breaking with tradition and for the first time in its 25-year history the converted ‘Golden Spurtle’ was awarded to two competitors Calle Myrsell and Per Carlsson both from Sweden. They both won using Swedish oats in the ‘Best Traditional Porridge’ category adding to the oatmeal only water and salt. 

The health benefits of porridge are well documented in lower blood pressures, reduction in diabetes, lowing of cholesterol and protect against heart disease. The Donnelly family who recently entered the Guinness book of world records with a combined age of 1,075 years attributed their longevity to porridge oats.  These benefits are further topped by living and working in such fantastic surrounding #train&workinthehighlands…!   

A fantastic festival day out made all the better great weather and Carrbridge with its famous 18th Century packhorse bridge (pictured here). 

Dr Mark Taylor ES & GP Associate Advisor, NES, Inverness Office.