August Newsletter
Londonwide LMCs Newsletter
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August 2015 Newsletter |
GPs should not automatically provide medical records following insurer subject access requests
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An Information Commissioner’s Office decision says handing over medical records wholesale following subject access requests (SARs) from insurers may be illegal, even with patient consent.
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Primary Care Workforce Commission report
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The Primary Care Workforce Commission was led by Professor Martin Rowland. Their report ‘the future of primary care: creating teams for tomorrow’ was published on 22 July. There are 38 recommendations covering workforce, practice skills (pharmacists etc), federations, integrating care, technology, safety, end of life care, managing specific patient groups, and data.
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GP resilience app
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The app, based around our GP Resilience, Take Control campaign, includes resilience guides for you to read on the move as well as the latest news from Londonwide LMCs. The app is free to download. Simply visit the iTunes store, give it a go and let us know what you think by emailing comms@lmc.org.uk. The iPhone and iPad app is intended as a pilot, with other handset brands and operating systems to follow.
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Media round-up
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Michelle spoke on camera to ITV News on Monday 10 August about EU citizens getting European Health Insurance cards in the UK and using them to bill the NHS for healthcare in their home countries. Michelle explained that a more comprehensive registration process should be administered by the NHS, rather than general practice.
Michelle spoke to Nursing in Practice and Management in Practice at the start of August, detailing the pressures facing the London general practice workforce as a whole and looking at how to better coordinate care to improve patient outcomes.
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Last updated : 13 Aug 2015
Despite doctors, including GPs, being more likely to experience reduced well-being and mental health symptoms, there is evidence that they also have insufficient access and face barriers to mainstream healthcare...
Londonwide LMCs has been asked to contribute to NHS England London’s 2015/16 Flu Evaluation session on 6th April 2016, giving feedback on the flu immunisation programme for this year.
In...
NHS England funding for the use of the Clarity appraisal toolkit has ceased. Although many of you will pay for and continue to use Clarity, we have been asked to...
Primary Care Support England (PCSE) is launching a new online portal. The portal is intended to provide service users with a quick and easy way of ordering and tracking supplies,...
General practice is responsible for 90% of all NHS activity but receives less than 10% of overall funding. Which makes it all the more concerning that responding to our recently...
The London Patient Online team have asked us to remind practices that they are expected to allow patients access to their coded data within the GP record by 31 March...
Future submission dates
FFT feedback month
Submission closure (twelfth working day of the month)
January 2016...
My Apprenticeship –Joel Carmody at St Peter’s Medical Centre, Harrow
We have all heard the horror stories about general practice on the news. The endless waiting times, the further restrictions...
Almost a million Londoners face losing their GP as the workforce crumbles in the face of staff shortages, warns Dr Michelle Drage, Chief Executive of Londonwide LMCs, following a survey...
Londonwide LMCs’ Annual General Meeting took place on Thursday 28 January 2016 at the LMCs’ offices, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9LH.
The formal...