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

London Ambulance Service Health Care Professional Admissions telephone number has changed to 020 3162 7525 (01 Apr 2016)

Provider Development Masterclasses (31 Mar 2016)

RCGP guide to supporting information for appraisal and revalidation (30 Mar 2016)

London GP Registration for Offenders (30 Mar 2016)

Patient online access for children aged 11-16 years (24 Mar 2016)

Budget 2016 (17 Mar 2016)

New Housing Application letter and poster (17 Mar 2016)

Patient Online detailed coded record (DCR) deadline is 31 March 2016 (16 Mar 2016)

PMS contract reviews update (16 Mar 2016)

New Men B immunisation advice (16 Mar 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

The London Ambulance Service (LAS) have asked us to inform our GPs and practice teams that the Health Care Professional (HCP) Admissions phone number has changed to:

This series of day-long masterclasses aims to equip participants with relevant, practical business skills and knowledge that they can take back and use in their localities. Topics have been selected...

The RCGP has approved a new guide to supporting information for appraisal and revalidation (March 2016) that aims to reduce inconsistencies in interpretation and streamline the process of providing...

Londonwide LMCs welcomes the London GP Registration for Offenders initiative, it helps practices deal with the needs of an often vulnerable and challenging group of patients. Offenders have exactly the same rights...

NHS England (NHSE) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have produced some helpful guidance about proxy access regarding Patient Online. The full guidance is available here and...

Budget 2016 was, on the whole, fairly innocuous for health professionals. There were very few health-specific announcements (some money for children’s hospitals outside London) and a couple of measures that...

Our new waiting room poster and template practice letter will help practice staff manage requests for letters supporting housing applications.

This month sees the deadline for enabling online access to patients’ detailed coded record (DCR). Practices have until 31 March 2016 to switch this on. The latest figures we...

We recently issued our third PMS (Personal Medical Services) bulletin on the reviews taking place across London. Our bulletins are designed to bring you the current PMS contract review information...

Following recent high profile stories about child deaths from meningitis B, Public Health England has issued further advice: Men B immunisation programme Following recent media coverage about the death of...

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