Contents

• Introduction
• Leadership skills
• Understanding the culture in which you work
• Time management
• Supervision of staff
• People skills
• Organisational skills
• Managing meetings
• Managing your team
• Staying patient focused
• Communicating with patients and their relatives
• Communicating with the patient's GP
• Good record keeping
• Data Protection - in brief
• Writing a report
• Acting as a medical expert witness
• Giving evidence as a witness of fact
• Setting up in private practice: medico-legal considerations
• Dealing with the media
• Guide to social media