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

Five Year Forward View – two years on (19 Oct 2016)

Key themes in the development of an active and effective patient participation group (PPG) (19 Oct 2016)

Guest blog - supporting adult mental health patients and carers to shape services (19 Oct 2016)

Humberside LMCs' guidance on support for practices (18 Oct 2016)

NHS England is no longer funding commercial or trade waste services for practices (18 Oct 2016)

Self Care Week 2016: understanding self care for life (18 Oct 2016)

Mandatory data collection deadlines October 2016 (18 Oct 2016)

World Mental Health Day (18 Oct 2016)

Reflective Practice Masterclass for GPs: from Mindfulness to Reflection, Thursday 10 November 2016 - places still available (13 Oct 2016)

General Practice Resilience Programme - Londonwide LMCs' update (30 Sep 2016)

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

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Humberside LMCs have produced A Practice Guide to Funding & Support for General Practice outlining the sources of support available to practices in their area. Many of the these schemes...

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Self Care Week (14 - 20 November) is an excellent tool for general practice. Organised by the Self Care Forum, the national awareness week has been running since 2009 and is...

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We marked World Mental Health Day (Monday 10 October) by sharing resources on social media, including perspectives on managing patients’ mental health and supporting good mental health among GPs. Reflective...

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