Emma Bower

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1,286 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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Talking General Practice · New BMA England GP committee chair Dr Clare Bannon on securing a better deal for general practice · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

I'll be back next week for our regular news review, which is back after a break over the summer. matched

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In the meantime, don't forget you can keep up to date with all the latest news and access lots of other resources on our website at gponline.com. matched

Talking General Practice · GP Money Matters: Portfolio careers and your personal finances · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

Hello and welcome to this special bonus episode of Talking General Practice, the podcast from GP Online. I'm Emma Bower, the editor of GP Online. This new GP Money Matters series is sponsored by Wesleyan and we'll be looking at key personal finance issues that affect GPs. Today on the podcast, I'm speaking again with Wendy Bailey, a chartered financial planner and regional manager at Wesleyan Financial Services, about the rise of portfolio careers in general practice and what this means for GPs finances. voice-verified

New research from Wesleyan reveals that holding multiple roles has become the norm, with over two thirds of doctors having portfolio careers. Wendy explains the hidden complexities of juggling multiple roles, including the risk of unexpected tax bills, NHS pension headaches and the surprising hurdles GPs face when trying to secure a mortgage. She also shares her top advice on how to approach your finances holistically to avoid these pitfalls. voice-verified

Recognised by the NHS as able to give guidance on the NHS pension scheme, Wesleyan brings trusted expertise to key financial decisions. Combining financial planning, investment advice and protection, it helps doctors make confident, informed choices. 96% of doctors rated their specialist financial advisor as very good or excellent, reflecting a focused service that helps doctors protect their income, grow wealth and plan ahead with confidence. voice-verified

Remember, the value of investments can go down as well as up and you may get back less than you invest. voice-verified

I'm delighted to be joined again on the podcast by Wendy Bailey from Wesleyan, who's a chartered financial planner and a fellow of the Personal Finance Society and a regional manager with Wesleyan, looking after all of their advisors across Scotland and Northern Ireland in their medical division. Wesleyan provides financial advice to GPs and other doctors, and she's here today to talk about the rise in portfolio working within the medical profession and what that means for doctors' personal finances. voice-verified

Thanks for coming back on the podcast, Wendy. It's really good to see you again. Thank you, Emma. It's lovely to be here again. This latest research is by Wesleyan Assurance Society, and it suggests that holding multiple roles has become the norm for many doctors. We actually spoke about this research recently on our main podcast, but what actually did it find? So, portfolio careers, as people generally know this by, voice-verified

All sorts of things. Part-time specialist clinical work as well. We see that quite often. We see people working in, for example, the breast clinics, etc. So there's lots of it about. Portfolio working, as you say there, I mean, it's actually become increasingly common, hasn't it, over the past decade or so? Yes. We write quite a lot about the many career opportunities available for GPs on our website. But doctors, they're not necessarily doing this for financial reasons, are they? No. voice-verified

Lots of people I speak to as well say that is the kind of thing that sort of keeps them in practice for longer because they have more variety in their role and they can find like doing a full time job in general practice just kind of quite overwhelming. You talked about some of the different combinations of roles you're seeing amongst GPs. Was there anything else that they're doing in particular in terms of other jobs? voice-verified

contracts, etc. So it can be really, really varied what our GPs are doing. There's probably a bit of complexity with juggling multiple roles. Most of the doctors in the poll were positive about the benefits of having more than one role, weren't they? Yes. voice-verified

That's why they were considering moving back to a single income stream and a single role is to avoid burnout itself again. I can see that because obviously having more than one role, it's like two things you've got to think about all the time, isn't it? There's a lot in your brain space if you've got two or more different jobs. So I can kind of see that. But despite that, the research found that most doctors expected to continue to hold multiple roles, didn't it? voice-verified

lots of GPs, even very new GPs, they see themselves as having a portfolio career almost from the word go because that's part of the reason why they've chosen general practice because they see that it's a real option for them to build a career around the things that interest them and the life they want to have and voice-verified

I've been at conferences as well where people have gone up and started explaining about how to have a portfolio career. And at the end of every session they do, they're always surrounded by often GP registrars asking, how do you do it? How does it work? So if there's one bit of advice you would give to doctors currently managing multiple roles or thinking about embarking on having more than one role online. voice-verified

That's brilliant, Wendy. Thanks again for coming on the podcast. It's been really good to speak to you again. Thank you for having me again, Emma. It's been lovely to be here. Well, that's it for this special episode of Talking General Practice. Thanks again to Wendy and thank you for listening. I'll be back with our regular podcast soon, so please do join me then. voice-verified

Talking General Practice · Pursuing a GP career after recovering from addiction · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Hello and welcome to Talking General Practice, the podcast from GP Online.

I'm Emma Bower, the editor of GP Online.

On today's episode, we're sharing a conversation that was originally recorded for our sister podcast, MIMS Learning's Clinical Update.

In this episode, MIMS Learning deputy editor Rhiannon Ashman speaks with Dr Michael Blackmore, a GP partner, chair of the RCGP's West Scotland faculty and a recovering addict, about the critical yet often hidden issue of addiction and recovery within the medical profession.

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