Londonwide LMCs' January 2016 Newsletter now available
Londonwide LMCs Newsletter
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Londonwide LMCs' Annual Conference: |
We can work it out: powering up London's primary care workforce |
The Emirates, London - 20 April 2016 - Register FREE now! |
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Apprenticeships |
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The general practice apprenticeship programme is seeking practices to participate in its latest round of placements. Practices are being offered the opportunity to take on a potential apprentice for a three day trial before committing to the annual programme. |
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Primary care evidence to Health Select Committee |
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Alistair Burt MP, Community & Social Care Minister, gave evidence to the Health Select Committee, including his views on the Government’s seven-day NHS plans. |
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Taking the next steps in encouraging the use of online services for patients |
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Patient Online requires patients to have electronic access to view their records, which may be challenging to implement for some practices. Dr Phil Koczan, Digital Clinical Champion for Patient Online in London, provides advice on how to best implement.. |
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Media round-up |
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On 18 January Londonwide LMCs' CEO, Michelle Drage spoke at a Westminster Health Forum event on the future of health in London, which was covered in GPOnline. Michelle also had an authored piece in the Huffington Post on 4 January, with a New Year’s message for London general practice. In mid-December the work of the Doctor Hickey Surgery in Westminster with the area's homeless was covered in a Guardian article, as well as a lengthy package on BBC London's evening TV news and an interview with Dr Paul O'Reilly on BBC Radio London's breakfast show. Dr O'Reilly is the chair of Westminster LMC. |
Got a story? Email us at comms@lmc.org.uk. Deadline for next month's submissions is 10 February. |
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From November 2015 anyone who allows their registration to lapse will need to make an application for readmission to regain access to the registrar. This could take between two...Updated Subject Access Requests (SARs) guidance from the BMA (11 Sep 2015)
The BMA has issued guidance Focus on’ guidance on Subject Access Requests (SARs) for insurance purposes. The guidance has been updated following the Information Commissioner’s Office input and includes...Training and development events for GPs and practice staff (11 Sep 2015)
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DLT are the UK’s leading supplier of magazine subscription packages to businesses. Offering permanent discounts of up to 70% off cover prices and a range of over 150 leading titles,...Egg-free flu vaccine Optaflu now available (11 Sep 2015)
MASTA, one of the Buying Group’s approved flu vaccine suppliers for the 2015-16 season, is now carrying stocks of the egg-free flu vaccine Optaflu. This can be delivered out with...Retired Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) indicators update (11 Sep 2015)
Following concerns highlighted by practices in relation to the request from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) to extract data related to retired QOF indicators, the BMA’s General...Friends and Family Test - act now to avoid a breach notice (11 Sep 2015)
We are aware that there may be some confusion about the data required for the Friends and Family Test (FFT). NHS England data on the monthly returns show that many...Warning for practices over PBX phone systems (11 Sep 2015)
There are reports that some businesses have recently been victims of PBX (Private Branch Exchanges) fraud where a hacker accessed their phone lines and made premium rate calls at a...Speakers' Corner - Undergraduate teaching in General Practice. Your medical school needs you! (09 Sep 2015)
This month Joe Rosenthal, Senior Lecturer in General Practice & Sub-Dean for Community Based Teaching at UCL Medical School, gives us his view of undergraduate teaching in general practice....Guidance
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