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

September 2016 Newsletter (22 Sep 2016)

Advice on military veterans with concerns over Mefloquine (21 Sep 2016)

Capita / PCSE delays in performers list applications (21 Sep 2016)

London GPs amongst most influential in the UK (21 Sep 2016)

Sustainability and Transformation Plans - September 2016 Update (21 Sep 2016)

Patient engagement survey shows patients are behind us (21 Sep 2016)

Winter planning - start encouraging flu vaccinations now (19 Sep 2016)

Speakers' Corner - Cancer awareness at The Royal Marsden (14 Sep 2016)

Mword - Issue 30 (12 Sep 2016)

From Mindfulness to Reflection: how to stay healthy in today's NHS, event for GPs 12 October and 10 November 2016 (23 Aug 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

Individuals who may have taken Mefloquine prescribed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) are now being offered support from the MoD’s Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Mefloquine, launched on...

There have been delays in processing GP trainee applications for the Performers List beyond the three month window for applications to be processed. Whatever the reason, GP trainees are not...

Pulse magazine’s annual list of the 50 most influential GPs in the UK was published at the start of September. In its seventh year, the Power 50 recognised Dr Michelle...

Sustainability and Transformation Plans in London On Wednesday 14 September MPs debated concerns regarding the impact of NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans on frontline services. Challenging both the transparency and...

Our patient engagement survey reached both practice leads and members of patient participation groups (PPGs). Responses suggest that many of the current challenges faced by general practice are on the...

Practices should have received their stocks of influenza vaccine by now. We strongly advise that practices who have yet to do so, to start informing their patients who are over 65...

This month's Speakers' Corner comes from The Royal Marsden, the world renowned hospital that specialises in cancer care, treatment, research, training and education. This month is Gynaecological Cancer Awareness month. ...

12 September 2016...

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