When entering or editing details of a member of practice staff, site editors can choose a job title from a dropdown menu: Doctor, Nurse, District Nurse, Health Visitor, Receptionist, Manager or administrative staff or Other. A note on the form now makes it clear that this controls which heading on the About us page the member of staff is listed under. The Other job title box has been renamed Specific job title; this can be left blank, but if a title is entered it appears after the name on the About us page and also on the individual's own page. The individual page format has been modified so that Nurse, District Nurse, Health Visitor and Receptionist appear as the page header, but for the other categories the person's name is the page header. This allows titles such as 'Practice Manager' to appear sensibly, but also allows specific titles such as 'Team Leader' to appear in addition to the generic title.

I hope this is clear to everyone!

Some of you have added specific titles to the names of members of staff, so I am asking all practices which are using the About us page to check their sites and make any necessary changes.

If anyone would like to suggest any other staff categories, we’ll be happy to add these.