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

Winter health watch summaries (26 Jan 2017)

Requirement to use your GMC number on Death Certificates (26 Jan 2017)

Jeremy Hunt MP questioned on Brexit impact by Health Select Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Sessional GP engagement (26 Jan 2017)

Patient engagement roundtable (26 Jan 2017)

EHH sessional open meeting, Tuesday 31 January 2017 (26 Jan 2017)

Guest blog – Dealing with online patient comments (26 Jan 2017)

MP engagement - Jeremy Corbyn MP practice visit (26 Jan 2017)

January 2017 newsletter (26 Jan 2017)

NHS England clinical pharmacist funding scheme (19 Jan 2017)

Guidance

GP Support

Speakers' Corner

Guidance Updates

Londonwide Diary

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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 Government’s weekly updates on the prevalence of winter illnesses and weather conditions in England can be found on the gov.uk website The data for the reports comes from four...

Registry Offices and certificates are refusing to accepted Medical Certificate of Cause of Deaths (MCCDs) without GMC numbers on them. GPs working using old books of blank death certificates should write...

On 24 January Jeremy Hunt MP appeared before the House of Common’s Health Select Committee to answer questions on the impact of the UK leaving the European Union (EU). Highlights...

We will provide real-time Twitter updates from our Ealing, Hammersmith and Houslow sessional GP open meeting on 31 January, to allow those who are interested but cannot attend to follow...

Our Patient Engagement Project hosted a successful roundtable event last month which focussed on building working relationships with third sector stakeholders to benefit practices in their work with their patient...

Engage and Connect – Catch up with what all Sessional GPs MUST know Are you salaried? Who could be employing you if MCPs potentially take over GMS and PMS?...

Our GP Support team’s Jan Swannell shares how she managed online complaints during her time as a practice manager in North London. After 15 years as a practice manager I...

On Friday 13 January Rt. Hon. Jeremy Corbyn MP visited the Andover Medical Centre in his Islington North constituency to hear about issues affecting the practice and its patients, particularly...

NHS England has rolled out the next phase of its clinical pharmacists in general practice programme, which offers to partially fund the recruitment and first three years of employment for clinical pharmacists....

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