Juliet Bailey

About me

I am a GP who qualified in September 2020, having trained in Exeter and Torbay from undergraduate training right through to F1/2 and GP training. I am married to a software engineer, and have two daughters age 7 and 4. We love the outdoors, and particularly enjoy camping and wild swimming. My clinical interests have been varied throughout my training, but I have consistently worked towards becoming a GP, and enjoyed taking on Quality improvement work throughout. I was employed in my current practice as their Quality improvement lead alongside the 5 clinical sessions of list holding salary work. In addition to this, I have taken on teaching 1 session a week, and worked one additional session on fellowship projects.

About my fellowship time

Personal Development The fellowship has enabled me to work on various areas of interest including:

• Establishing myself as a 5th year medical student therapeutics teacher for University of Plymouth.

• Developing minor surgery skills, initially running all minor surgery for our practice, and then being clinical supervisor to our nurse practitioner as she up-skilled to also provide minor surgery. 

•  Working on several quality improvement streams as detailed below. - Deciding on the direction of my career with the help of the mentor provided through the fellowship. (Specifically answering the question – did I want to become a partner?)

Projects/QI: 

• Early cancer QIP – I ran this for just over 2 years. We produced some good results, and disseminated learning through primary care cancer alliance, and the Early Cancer DES webinars for the southwest. 

•  Referrals optimisation – looking at ways of collating and sharing learning from feedback on rejected referrals and A&G letters within the practice. - Preparing a change to our appointments access and producing infographic communications for patients about how to get the right help at the right time (small change management project). This is still live on our practice website. 

•  Resource sharing platform – using padlet to collate useful resources for clinicians and producing a separate page with self-care information for patients to be directed to as part of their treatment plan. This is still a work in progress. 

What did I get out of my fellowship?

So much – summarised above. Most of all it gave me the opportunity to ‘land’ after completing training, and establish myself as an independent practitioner, acclimatising to what energises me with my work, and how to gain the best of my skill set within the opportunities available to me. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to take on so much project work.