Londonwide LMCs' September 2018 newsletter
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How to be a dementia friendly practice
21 September is World Alzheimer's Day, Dr Aoife Keily of the Alzheimer’s Society explains how practices can be more dementia friendly.
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BMA survey of Docman problems
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The BMA are asking for practices to provide information on the volume of correspondence in their ‘unprocessed’ Docman folder and how long it will take them to go through it. Responses will be used to push for some degree of reimbursement for the additional work created through the Docman error.
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LEAD training events
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A round-up of our upcoming training events and courses for practice staff and clinicians, including day-long workshops and our blended learning courses for practice nurses, healthcare assistants and practice managers.
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Jobs board reminder
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Don’t forget our vacancies section is free to use for practices. All you need to do is complete and submit the web form and we will do the rest to get your job listing online.
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How we use your data
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In line with recent data protection legislation changes, we have updated our privacy policy which explains how we handle your personal data.
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Last updated : 17 Oct 2018
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This month’s update include advice on:
London policy for accessing financial support for service charges and premises running costs
How to plan a premises relocation
Lease negotiations
Transitional funding...
There are vacancies on the following:
Armed forces committee
Civil and public services committee
Private practice committee
Forensic and secure environments committee
Committee of medical managers
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Ellie Roberts, a practice manager on secondment to Londonwide LMCs, looks at why practices need to bite the bullet and get started on their flu campaign now.
The flu campaign...
At May’s LMC conference the following motion by Tower Hamlets LMC was passed:
That conference believes that the GP Forward View is failing to deliver the resources necessary to sustain...
The locum GP handbook provides advice and guidance on all aspects of locum work, including on starting out as a locum, setting up as a business and establishing a contract for...
GPC (England) has produced new guidance on the interface between primary and secondary care in collaboration with NHS England, NHS Improvement, NHS Clinical Commissioners, Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal...
This page has been updated to remove advice which stated schemes proposed by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) which involve GPs assessing patients’ ability to pay for over-the-counter medicines and asking...
Our first Essential Toolkit for GPs on Tuesday 4 July, 2017 was a huge success.
See some of the top tweets from speakers and attendees below:
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