All Posts in Category: Blog

Happy new year 2013 to all our members

Wow ! What an amazing year GP Tools has had. We have grown our user base by over 300%(!), and have been accepted as the revalidation toolkit of choice by a number of PCOs up and down the country. In addition, we have implemented many new and innovative features that you will not find anywhere […]

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GPTools is as Easy as Email

I just read an excellent post by 37signal’s Jason Fried, called ‘Competing on easy.’ To quote, ” I like to make things easier for people. I love competing on easy. I find easy to be the most personally rewarding, too. It has such direct impact. When something is easier, you feel it. You’ve done it […]

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Appraisals at the speed of light

We are pleased to announce that our systems upgrade is complete. We have worked hard to provide you with the best user experience: GPTools is now faster than ever, and introduces even more features to make appraisal / revalidation as easy as possible.

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Huge update is coming

GPTools users will be pleased to hear that we are in the last stages of finalising a huge update. We have been listening to the community and will be implementing many new changes to make appraisal / revalidation as easy and painless as possible for our colleagues. As always, stay tuned…

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MSF aka Colleague Feedback upgrade

Seeing that the GMC Colleague Feedback form has been finalised…. Almost instantly we upgraded the inbuilt multi source feedback system: Enter the email addresses of your colleagues in GPTools (under integrated feedback) Colleagues are emailed a link where they can fill in the GMC form for you Results are anonymised – there is no way of knowing […]

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Bookmarklet feature updated

The hugely popular GPTools Diary bookmarklet feature has been upgraded. After installing the bookmarklet, whenever you are on a web page that you think will contribute to your learning and development, simply click on the GPTools diary bookmark to save the page into your GPTools database. You will have an option to anonymously share the […]

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Revalidation forms are now live

The new revalidation forms are now online We have worked hard to ensure that the whole process of revalidation has been laid out in an easy to understand way. There might be a few gremlins in the forms, so if you encounter any, please let us know. Still have a TO-DO list though, which we’ll […]

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Revalidation update is on its way

First a warning: The following post might cause you insomnia depending on your affiliation What if I told you that revalidation is actually easier than the appraisals we’ve had to endure? This bloke must be joking I hear you say! Well, Dear Colleagues (sound familiar?) it is. Now how can that be possible? Because revalidation […]

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Major usability upgrade taking shape

I am a sucker for exceptional usability, and am dismayed at what us GPs have to put up with when it comes to the computer systems we use. I’m not going to name anything here, but we all know who and what I am  talking about. For example: In the year 2012, why are  we […]

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