Londonwide LMCs' September 2018 newsletter
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How to be a dementia friendly practice
21 September is World Alzheimer's Day, Dr Aoife Keily of the Alzheimer’s Society explains how practices can be more dementia friendly.
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BMA survey of Docman problems
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The BMA are asking for practices to provide information on the volume of correspondence in their ‘unprocessed’ Docman folder and how long it will take them to go through it. Responses will be used to push for some degree of reimbursement for the additional work created through the Docman error.
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LEAD training events
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A round-up of our upcoming training events and courses for practice staff and clinicians, including day-long workshops and our blended learning courses for practice nurses, healthcare assistants and practice managers.
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Jobs board reminder
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Don’t forget our vacancies section is free to use for practices. All you need to do is complete and submit the web form and we will do the rest to get your job listing online.
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How we use your data
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In line with recent data protection legislation changes, we have updated our privacy policy which explains how we handle your personal data.
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Last updated : 17 Oct 2018
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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...
