Londonwide LMCs' March 2019 Newsletter

New GP contract guidance

Feedback sought on changes to NHS commissioning law

Londonwide LMCs’ Conference round-up

New board members

New Information Commissioner’s Office advice on Subject Access Requests

Improving palliative and end of life care

Statutory National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care appointed

Template locum contract

Remember to use BEAM to LMC to highlight the pressure you are under

Media and public affairs round-up

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)

September 2016 Newsletter (22 Sep 2016)

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March 2019 Newsletter

Read our new, short, guides explaining what the new GP Contract means for practices; and looking at the specific steps you need to take.

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We have submitted initial comments to the Parliamentary Health Committee considering NHS England’s proposed changes to the Health and Social Care Act, including the competition rules affecting CCGs, board composition and collaborating with trusts. Please give us your thoughts.

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Our annual conference took place on 12 March, with over 400 people from across London general practice gathering to hear from influential speakers and to learn practical skills.

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Following elections we would like to welcome Dr Anouska Hari and Dr Naureen Bhatti to the board. We would also like to thank Dr Michal Grenville and Dr Paul O’Reilly for their service.

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently released further advice for GPs and practices on patients' rights to access records.

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Response to requests for work absence sick notes for less than seven days

Push back against employers' demands for short absence sick notes.

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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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Also this month...

Dame Fiona Caldicott has been appointed as the first statutory National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care.

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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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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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Our Annual Conference took place on 12 March at the Kia Oval, it was covered by six different publications, more details are in our round-up of the day. On 8 March Dr Michelle Drage, our CEO, was quoted in a Pulse piece about GP at Hand’s growing patient list. Also on 8 March, Michelle was quoted in GPonline supporting the #BalanceForBetter campaign, as part of International Women’s Day and we promoted it on Twitter.

We continue to be very active in promoting the interests of London GPs and practice staff on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. If you have an example of general practice doing something well which could make a news story please get in touch. We also support practices that are approached with media requests. You can find details here.

The Buying Group is available to all London practices and gives access to discounts on
a wide range of goods and services from Miab, MidMeds, Practice Index and Surgery Connect.
Contact buyinggroup@lmc.org.uk or visit the Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group webpage for further information.

Got a story? Email us at comms@lmc.org.uk. Deadline for next month's submissions is 10 April.	Download your resources from our GP State of Emergency website.

Last updated : 19 Aug 2019

Responses to the recent Londonwide LMCs’ patient engagement survey highlighted the broad spectrum of patient’ and practice’ experience of patient participation groups (PPGs). These ranged from the positive to the...

This month Rebecca Lambert and Nirusha Nicholas of South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust describe their work in engaging the community in shaping adult mental health services and supporting each...

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...

NHS England is no longer funding commercial or trade waste services for practices. The Premises Directions 2013, Part 5, paragraph 46 (1) (b) lists the payments NHS England has a...

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...

Practices are required to complete their submissions for the workforce minimum data set by midday on 26 October the new biannual extended access data return by 31 October. Biannual extended...

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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The 'General Practice Forward View' sets out a commitment to deliver a 'General Practice Resilience programme' over the next four years (2016-2020). The programme aims to deliver a menu of...

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