‘Innovative and interesting’ HCA course now incorporates the 15 Care Certificate Standards - 04 December 2017
“I would recommend it to other HCAs, a very good course”. “The trainers were excellent”. “Facilitators have a good knowledge of their subjects and they explained clearly”. These are just some of the many positive comments about Londonwide LMCs' GP Health Care Assistant programme...Our latest workforce survey is live next week - 23 November 2017
Thank you in advance for making space in your hectic day to complete our short survey on practice workforce issues which will help us to gather insight to share with key opinion formers and stakeholders, and to generate stories highlighting the pressures you are under for trade and national publications....M word - Issue 29 - Dr Michelle Drage's latest update for GPs and their practice teams - 22 November 2017
Dear Colleague, I know you’re constantly being bombarded with surveys that take ‘just a few minutes’, most of which take you away from your day’s core work, but as we...New GMS1 form - use now - 22 November 2017
All practices should have received new GMS1 forms to use from this month onwards. The new forms include supplementary questions to be completed by overseas visitors who hold either a non-UK issued European Health Insurance Form (EHIC), a Provisional Replacement...Londonwide LMCs motions at England LMC Representative Conference - 22 November 2017
The first Conference of England LMCs took place on 10 November in London. The full list of motions, including which parts were carried can be downloaded here. A summary of the motions proposed by London LMCs follows. Online consulting Tower Hamlets LMC successfully persuaded conference to back a motion...Request for hospitals to issue fit notes gets results - 21 November 2017
Our recent letters to hospital trusts asking them to issue fit notes to patients rather than referring them back to GPs has had a positive response from Imperial College Healthcare Trust, who have rolled out a poster and staff information campaign. Imperial replied to Michelle’s letter asking them to provide...Practice managers please respond to records update email - 17 November 2017
In the next few weeks, we will be sending an email to all practice managers asking them to confirm the GPs who are working at their practice, please look out for this email and respond to it, even if all the information for your practice is correct. This to make...BMA referral to a specialist patient leaflet - 17 November 2017
The BMA has launched a new leaflet which is designed to provide patients with information on what to expect when referred to a specialist. The leaflet can be downloaded from this page. The BMA has also produced further resources for patient liaison which are available here. Our waiting...Updated statement for practices using TPP SystmOne - 25 October 2017
Following detailed discussions between the ICO, TPP, NHS Digital and NHS England, TPP has now identified some changes which are intended to address the ICO’s concerns about the fair and lawful processing of patient data on the system. TPP hopes that the changes will also...Electronic Referral System: help or hindrance? - 25 October 2017
First, we had choose and book, now this has morphed into electronic referral system (eRS). This is a system that is being pushed by NHSE as part of the digital agenda to such an extent that NHS trusts, from October 2018, will not be paid...Remember that your practice needs a CQC registered manager - 25 October 2017
Remember that Section 33 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 states that it is a legal requirement for practices to have a registered manager with the CQC (Care Quality Commission). Whenever a registered manager leaves a practice or wishes to hand on the...Data security and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) - get ready now! - 25 October 2017
Earlier this month that the Government announced that the forthcoming European privacy rules set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into British law and update the existing Data Protection Act. This impacts on everyone, including GP practices. The announcement confirmed that...MDO reimbursement (indemnity) - 25 October 2017
Londonwide LMCs Guidance for Sessional GPs and Indemnity Reimbursements from NHS England As part of the 2017/18 GP contract agreement, it was agreed that £30m would be paid to practices to...Violent patients – a step-by-step guide to safeguarding staff - 25 October 2017
After a mental health inpatient made a death threat against a GP in a London practice. Londonwide LMCs' medical director Dr Vicky Weeks shares the advice she gave the team. “The practice has followed correct process in terms of removing this patient from their list....What they said about the GP Essential Toolkit conference - 25 October 2017
Our first Essential Toolkit for GPs on Tuesday 4 July, 2017 was a huge success. See some of the top tweets from speakers and attendees below: At #GPtoolkitLMC - don't comment on social media anything...Guest blog: Engaged patients boost your practice - 25 October 2017
This week (w/c 19 June) is patient participation awareness week. East London GP and LMC member Dr Naomi Beer tells us about the benefits of patient engagement and how it helped save her practice. I want to write about the benefits of patient engagement and...Chairs and vice chairs look at cross-LMC working - 25 October 2017
Last week’s meeting of Londonwide LMCs’ leaders looked at cross-LMC working, to make sure we are ready to represent members as the NHS brings in new organisations as part of the STP process. The meeting looked at the challenges London general practice currently faces, including from the national transformation agenda...Identifying patients living with frailty - 25 October 2017
Since July 2017 there has been a new contractual requirement for practices to focus on the identification and management of patients living with frailty. Practices are required to use appropriate tools, such as the Electronic Frailty Index (eFI), to identify patients over the age of 65 who are living with...Extended hours DES update - 24 October 2017
The 2017/18 changes to the GP contract included the condition that meant practices who regularly close for a half day, on a weekly basis, will not ordinarily qualify to deliver the Extended Hours DES. The contract was not specific on what ‘open’ means. Ros Roughton, NHS England’s Director of NHS...
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