-responding to medical/health problems presented by patients including history taking, diagnosis, investigation, treatment and referral as appropriate;
-maintaining confidentiality and impartiality;
-commissioning healthcare by liaising with medical professionals in the community and hospitals;
-promoting health education in conjunction with other health professionals;
-organising preventative medical programmes for individual patients;
-providing specialist clinics for specific conditions or for certain groups, e.g. diabetes, smoking cessation -and new babies;
-meeting targets set by the government for specific treatments, such as child immunisations;
-discussing the development of new pharmaceutical products with pharmaceutical sales representatives;
-keeping up to date with medical developments, new drugs, treatments and medications, including complementary medicine;