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
With increasing moves toward digital access and service provision in general practice, we want to gather information on the differing platforms and pilots offering online access, including whether and how...
There are some interesting results coming from the current survey on subject access requests (SARs) received by practices that is has been designed by Dr Paul Cundy, a GP in...
Doctors of the World (DOTW) has launched the Safe Surgeries toolkit, a single site to provide GP practices with resources helping them to better understand the regulations and best practice...
This month a new cohort of GP trainees take up their posts. We share some top tips from a current GP trainee and a GP trainer. If you work in...
This update is applicable to practices who are leasing their premises from Community Health Partnerships (CHP) or NHS Property Services (NHSPS).
Urgent - Occupancy Agreement letters
We are aware that...
After concerns raised by Waltham Forest LMC, the local council are now telling blue badge applicants not to contact their GP to support their application.
The letter states:
“Please note...
GPs and practice staff often find it frustrating when a non-NHS medical (or other chargeable non-NHS work) has been booked, such as for a taxi licence, and the patient fails...
If you would like to provide feedback to the GP Partnership Review please send us your thoughts before 30 August: info@lmc.org.uk.
On 30 July 2018 Dr Nigel Watson and...
Changes to sexual health services in London mean that anyone who is asymptomatic and wants to be tested for STIs should order a testing kit from the Sexual Health...
