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

Flu Feedback (16 Feb 2016)

Update: Appraisal Toolkit (16 Feb 2016)

Primary Care Support England – launch of a new online portal (16 Feb 2016)

November 2015 workforce survey findings (16 Feb 2016)

Patient Online deadline approaching – what you need to know (16 Feb 2016)

Family and Friends Test data submission dates and guidance (16 Feb 2016)

Apprenticeship update and a first-hand view of what makes it great (16 Feb 2016)

GP workforce pressures put care of nearly a million Londoners in jeopardy survey shows (15 Feb 2016)

Annual General Meeting (08 Feb 2016)

Support the BMA's Urgent Prescription for General Practice campaign (05 Feb 2016)

Guidance

GP Support

Speakers' Corner

Guidance Updates

Londonwide Diary

April

May

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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

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...

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