Guest blog – Dealing with online patient comments - 23 February 2017
Our GP Support team’s Jan Swannell shares how she managed online complaints during her time as a practice manager in North London. After 15 years as a practice manager I joined Londonwide LMCs’ GP Support team last August as an assistant manager. In my time...Submission to new All Party Parliamentary Group Primary Care and Public Health Inquiry - 23 February 2017
Londonwide LMCs has been invited to submit evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Primary Care and Public Health's new inquiry into managing demand in primary care. As we know (and our new workforce survey reveals starkly) we are experiencing a state of emergency for London general practice....NHS England guidance on managing conflicts of interest - 22 February 2017
NHS England has just published new guidance on managing conflicts of interest which comes into effect from 1 June 2017. The guidance aims to: Introduce common principles and rules for managing conflicts of interest. Provide simple advice to staff and organisations about what to do in common situations. Support...GPC regional election nominations 2017 - 22 February 2017
Nominations are open for the round of GPC regional elections to cover terms from 2017-20, in London two seats are up for election: Hillingdon, Brent, Harrow, Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley The current incumbents for these seats are Dr Michelle Drage and...London Ambulance Service Research Project - 21 February 2017
The London Ambulance Service (LAS) is running a research project linking ambulance data to emergency department data, enabling them to look at a patient record from their 999 call to their emergency department outcome and all the steps in between. The Pre-Hospital Emergency Department Data Linking Project (PHED Data) is...NHS Shared Business Services lost records repatriation - 27 January 2017
In July it was found that a backlog of clinical correspondence and results stretching back over several years remained in NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) storage areas and had not been processed. This problem came to light during the process of transferring operations from NHS SBS to Capita...EHH sessional open meeting, Tuesday 31 January 2017 - 26 January 2017
Engage and Connect – Catch up with what all Sessional GPs MUST know Are you salaried? Who could be employing you if MCPs potentially take over GMS and PMS? What is an MCP? Would you even have a choice in working for one? Would they offer an NHS pension?...NHS England clinical pharmacist funding scheme - 26 January 2017
NHS England has rolled out the next phase of its clinical pharmacists in general practice programme, which offers to partially fund the recruitment and first three years of employment for clinical pharmacists. The scheme is backed by the British Medical Association, Royal College of General Practitioners and Health Education England. To apply...Patient engagement roundtable - 26 January 2017
Our Patient Engagement Project hosted a successful roundtable event last month which focussed on building working relationships with third sector stakeholders to benefit practices in their work with their patient participation groups (PPGs). “Working Together to support general practice in London in fostering and developing patient participation groups” was an...Sessional GP engagement - 26 January 2017
We will provide real-time Twitter updates from our Ealing, Hammersmith and Houslow sessional GP open meeting on 31 January, to allow those who are interested but cannot attend to follow online. Anyone with internet access can follow the discussion, you do not need a Twitter account, simply go to Twitter...Jeremy Hunt MP questioned on Brexit impact by Health Select Committee - 26 January 2017
On 24 January Jeremy Hunt MP appeared before the House of Common’s Health Select Committee to answer questions on the impact of the UK leaving the European Union (EU). Highlights of Jeremy Hunt’s evidence to the Committee include: He was unable to provide guarantees on UK citizen’s right to...Requirement to use your GMC number on Death Certificates - 26 January 2017
Registry Offices and certificates are refusing to accepted Medical Certificate of Cause of Deaths (MCCDs) without GMC numbers on them. GPs working using old books of blank death certificates should write their GMC number next to their signature, those using newer books will see that a field has been added to...Winter health watch summaries - 26 January 2017
The Government’s weekly updates on the prevalence of winter illnesses and weather conditions in England can be found on the gov.uk website The data for the reports comes from four individual weekly Public Health England reports: Syndromic surveillance National seasonal influenza Norovirus and rotavirus All-cause...The NHS winter crisis and the Prime Minister’s run-in with GPs - 26 January 2017
The NHS winter crisis and the Prime Minister’s run-in with GPs The weekend of 14 January saw general practice and Theresa May come to blows over claims about the impact of GP opening hours on accident and emergency attendances. This story broke as the Government sought to quell reports of...Patient engagement survey 2016 - headline findings and key themes - 25 January 2017
Londonwide LMCs’ Patient Engagement Project started in July 2016. The project aims to support London GP practice teams in working collaboratively with their patients to shape high quality services and secure the future of their practices. Download this report as a PDF In August and September...Practice mergers guidance - 17 January 2017
More practices are choosing to merge as a way of meeting the workforce and financial challenges that GPs face. We have produced a new guide to help practices through this process. Download our guidance by clicking on the image below.Standing up for Sessional GPs - What your LMC can do for you - 19 December 2016
Early notice of LMC event for Sessional GPs Ealing, Harrow, Hammersmith and Fulham areas - please note in your diaries Standing up for Sessional GPs - What your LMC can do for you Come and hear what your LMC is doing to support sessional GPs, and let us know...Guest blog - What makes a successful patient participation group - 19 December 2016
Derek Spencer, Chair of Gillan House Surgery's patient participation group (PPG), shares how they are successful at raising money and campaigning on the practice’s behalf. About three years ago I wrote a letter of complaint to my surgery’s practice manager. To be honest it being...Patient online update - 15 December 2016
There is an agreed aspiration between the GPC (General Practitioners Committee) of the BMA and the NHS that practices attempt to register 10% of patients for online services by 31 March 2017. Note: this is not a contractual requirement. With 2017 likely to prove as demanding as 2016 for practices,...Patient Online November 2016 update - 15 December 2016
The contractual requirements for online access have expanded every year since the 2014/15 contract introduced patient online. Current contractual requirements mean that practices should now offer online booking of appointments, ordering of repeat prescriptions and viewing of detailed coded data in patient records. There is...
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