Good clinical care

Commentary - what do you think are the main strengths and weaknesses of your clinical practice?

How has the clinical care you provide improved since your last appraisal?

What do you think are your clinical care development needs for the future?

What factors in your workplace or more widely, constrain you significantly in achieving what you aim for in your clinical work?

Maintaining good medical practice

Commentary - what steps have you taken since your last appraisal to maintain and improve your knowledge and skills?

What have you found particularly successful or otherwise about the steps you have taken?

What professional or personal factors significantly constrain you in maintaining and developing your skills and knowledge?

How do you see your job and career developing over the next few years?

Relationships with patients

What are the main strengths and weaknesses of your relationships with patients?

How do you feel your relationships with patients have improved since your last appraisal?

What would you like to do better? What do you think are your current development needs in this area?

What factors in your workplace or more widely constrain you in achieving what you aim for in your patient relationships?

Working with colleagues

Commentary - what do you think are the main strengths and weaknesses of your relationships with colleagues?

How do you feel your relationships with colleagues have improved since your last appraisal?

What would you like to do better? What do you think are your current development needs in this area?

What factors in your workplace or more widely significantly constrain you in achieving what you aim for in your colleague relationships?

Teaching and training

Commentary - what do you think are the main strengths and weaknesses of your work as a teacher or trainer?

Has your teaching or training work changed since your last appraisal? Has it improved?

Would you like to do more? What would you like to do better? What do you think are your current development needs?

What factors constrain you in achieving what you aim for in your teaching or training work?

Probity

What safeguards are in place to ensure propriety in your financial and commercial affairs, research work, use of your professional position etc? Have there been any problems?

Has the position changed since your last appraisal or in the last year?

Do you feel the position needs to change? How?

What factors in your workplace or more widely significantly constrain you in this area?

Management activity

Please describe any management activities you undertake that are not related to your practice or the practice in which you work. How would you describe your strengths and weaknesses?

Do you think your management work has improved?

What are your development needs

What are the constraints?

Research

How would you appraise any research work that you do?

Do you feel your research skills have improved?

Do you have development needs in this area to reflect in your updated Plan?

What are the constraints?

Health

Do you feel there are any health-related issues for you that may put patients at risk?