Londonwide LMCs' March 2016 Newsletter now available

LMC Letters to London Trusts

Budget 2016

New Housing Application Letter and Poster

LMC elections - make your voice heard and stand for election

Feedback on flu

Briefing on the 2016/17 GP Contract changes

Nursing Associate consultation

LMC Liaison and queries to GPC

Patient Online detailed coded record (DCR) deadline is 31 March 2016

Be clear on cancer - blood in pee national campaign

Training and development events

Media round-up

NHS delivery plan for tackling the Covid-19 backlog of care (22 Feb 2022)

Contacting patients with BT phone lines and ‘Call Protect’ (22 Feb 2022)

COPI Notices extended for a further three months until 30 June 2022 (22 Feb 2022)

End of free Covid-19 testing and mandatory self-isolation (22 Feb 2022)

General practice issues in Parliament - February 2022 (21 Feb 2022)

Mayor’s research – registering patients without proof of address or ID (21 Feb 2022)

5–11-year-old Covid-19 vaccination (21 Feb 2022)

Owning your practice premises - the essentials, February 2022 (03 Feb 2022)

Vaccination as Condition of Deployment (VCOD) measures set to be cancelled (01 Feb 2022)

Waltham Forest LMC news update (31 Jan 2022)

Guidance

GP Support

Speakers' Corner

Guidance Updates

Londonwide Diary

April

May

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March 2016 Newsletter

LMCs across London have recently written to their local Trusts in support of their Junior Doctor colleagues, echoing their concerns about the safety of the new contract which is set to be imposed.

This week the Chancellor delivered his 2016 Budget Statement.

Our new waiting room poster and template practice letter will help practice staff manage requests for letters supporting housing applications.

Next month you will have a chance to stand for election to your LMC. Read a sessional GP’s perspective in our latest update.

If you haven't already done so, please complete a short online survey to help us capture any issues this year's seasonal flu campaign has presented to you. The closing date is 21 March.

As year-end approaches practice manager Virginia Patania looks at how to keep on top of record keeping and deadlines throughout the year.

In a collaboration between Resilient GP, GP Survival and Londonwide LMCs, we invite your collective wisdom on ideas which might form a rescue package for General Practice. If you haven't already, please tell us what your priorities are by 21 March.
	Take Survey

•	Men B advice
•	Zika guidance update
•	Latent TB testing and treatment programme
•	PMS Update

14	RCGP NWL Faculty free event - Referring men with suspected prostate cancer to secondary care
18	FFT data submission deadline
20/21	Westminster Health Forum conference

17/18

SystmOne National User Group 2016 Conference - Discount Available

9	June College of Medicine, London - Food the forgotten medicine

Also this month...

There will be an absolute one percent increase in contract value this year, with some further targeted funding to assist with specific operating costs.

Read Londonwide LMCs' response to HEE's consultation on the proposed new position of Nursing Associate can be seen here.

The BMA have changed their Policy Directorate and the way that they work with LMCs, including changing the LMC liaison officer role.

The end of this month is the deadline for enabling online access to patients' detailed coded record (DCR). Practices have until 31 March 2016 to switch this on.

The national campaign aims to remind people about the importance of seeing a doctor promptly if they notice 'blood in pee'.

An update on our training events supporting GPs and their practice staff in a challenging environment.

Our workforce survey continues to get coverage, being reported on the front page of the Kensington and Chelsea News and our CEO, Dr Michelle Drage, appeared on London Live News to discuss it on 3 March. Michelle has recently spoken about resilience and battling burnout at two events, Commissioning Live on 3 March and the Family Doctor Association on 3 February.

Dr Elliott Singer, one of our medical directors, wrote a piece for Pulse magazine on revalidation (requires free registration to access), published on 1 March.

Got a story? Email us at comms@lmc.org.uk. Deadline for next month's submissions is 6 April.	Have you downloaded your resources from our GP Resilience website?

Last updated : 21 Mar 2016

The long-awaited NHS elective recovery plan was published in full earlier this month and sets out plans to tackle England’s elective care backlog over the next three years. The...

Patients with a BT landline may be knowingly or unknowingly opted into a service called ‘Call Protect’ which prevents some practice phone systems calling them properly. Affected practices will find...

Simon Madden, Director of Data Policy at NHSX ,on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, notified GP practices on 10 February 2022 that the COPI...

On 21 February the Prime Minister announced the end of Covid restrictions and most support measures. Including: From 24 February people who test positive for Covid-19 will no longer...

For our February 2022 newsletter we round up recent activity happening in Westminster that affects general practice. Local councillors on Integrated Care Boards On the 9 February, Lord Kamall, Parliamentary...

The Greater London Authority, on behalf of the Mayor of London, is urgently seeking participants for research into barriers faced by GP surgeries when registering new patients without proof of...

NHS England has confirmed the eligibility of this new cohort, saying that they expect primary care networks to vaccinate at-risk 5-11 year olds and community pharmacy to be the primary...

Thursday 24 February 2022: 1.30pm to 4.30pm £95 per delegate for Londonwide practices £120 per delegate for practices from other areas This workshop is ideal for practices whose...

Regulations requiring healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated by 1 April should no longer be applied, the Health Secretary Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP announced to Parliament on the evening...

Please click here to read the latest Waltham Forest LMC news update.

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