Londonwide LMCs' March 2019 Newsletter
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Improving palliative and end of life care
March is the awareness month for Marie Curie’s Daffodil campaign, Dr Catherine Millington-Sanders and Dr Simon Stockill explain how the Daffodil Standards have informed QOF changes and voluntary quality improvement standards.
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Statutory National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care appointed
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Dame Fiona Caldicott has been appointed as the first statutory National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care.
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Template locum contract
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The BMA GPC and sessional subcommittee have jointly produced model terms of engagement for locum GPs, which they recommend to both practices and locums.
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Remember to use BEAM to LMC to highlight the pressure you are under
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Our BEAM to LMC mobile app, which enables you to tell us about the pressures you are under from commissioners and others, is proving popular. Make sure you check the app for push notifications.
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Last updated : 19 Aug 2019
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We are looking for examples to highlight how people can access appropriate care from GP practices, wider primary care and other community based services this winter, to feed into a public awareness...
Practices are advised to check data presented to them by CCGs with regard to levels of service provision, especially in relation to PMS/GMS premiums. In particular, CCG immunisation levels data...
We are exploring the possibility of creating a health care support worker (HCSW) forum and would like to gauge the views of any health care support workers in practice teams...
You should have received an email from us around midday on Friday 2 November with this subject line:
“Keep informed by keeping us informed (SSE/NWL/NCNE)”
This email contains our current...
The Movember campaign runs each November with the aim of improving awareness of men’s health issues. Dr Anil Shah, of Newham LMC, explains how best to encourage men to monitor...
Dr Jonty Heaversedge is Medical Director for Primary Care and Digital Transformation (London Region) NHS England and a GP in Southwark. Here he explains why he believes “The Next Steps...
The BMA and The Law Society have published a new version of the consent form used for releasing health records under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data...
This month's update includes our new premises support group and the fact we will be making contact with practices who are flagged to us as being in need of urgent...
Thank you in advance for making space in your busy day to complete our short survey on practice workforce issues which will help us to gather insight to share with key...