Reviewing general practice nurse pay, terms and conditions

General practice nursing is as diverse in job description as it is in the diversity of patients and conditions dealt with. It can be argued that a GPN is simply a nurse working within a general practice surgery or health centre (NHS Health Care Careers, 2020). Job descriptions are hard to standardise in general practice, given the nature of each practice operating as a single provider of NHS care: one city may have over 75 individual providers of GP care (Sheffield CCG, 2020). Despite working within an NHS remit and providing NHS services, it could be said the GPN is employed by a privately run company, and because of this, many different job titles and descriptions are used for the same role. GPNs can be known as the following: practice nurse; treatment room nurse; advanced nurse practitioner (ANP); advanced clinical practitioner (ACP); trainee ANP or trainee ACP; nurse practitioner; nurse manager; sister; or GP matron. For the purpose of this work, we have defined that a GPN is a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registered nurse working in a general practice setting.