MP engagement and government consultations - 16 December 2021
During late November and December 2021 representatives from Londonwide LMCs have continued to meet with MPs, councillors and the police to raise issues affecting practices. We have also submitted evidence on the challenges facing London’s practices to Parliament and are considering responses to further consultations. Health and Social Care Select...PCSE updates on contact details and pooled lists - 16 December 2021
Correct contact details Practices can improve communications with PCSE by ensuring that they have the most up to date practice contact details, including: The main practice contact All user administrators The designated Performers List approver The designated GP Payments & Pensions (GPPP) approver These may be the same...Guidance updates December 2021 - 16 December 2021
The most important pieces of guidance released for general practice since our last newsletter are: Regulatory approval of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 and Regulatory approval of Spikevax (formerly COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna) (MHRA guidance), 15 minute observation period temporarily suspended, updated 14.12.2021. Preparing the NHS for the...Registering overseas vaccinations at vaccination sites - 16 December 2021
On 9 December the Government updated guidance advising patients who wish to add an overseas Covid-19 vaccination to their NHS record to do so by booking a specific type of appointment at a vaccination centre. This is only applicable to vaccinations received abroad that are also approved for use in...Covid-19 antiviral pilots - 16 December 2021
The government announced this month that thousands of the UK’s most vulnerable people will be among the first in the world to access a new antiviral treatment for Covid-19, Molnupiravir. This will take the form of pilot prescribing antivirals to vulnerable people who have caught Covid-19 and a study combining...Latest LMC workforce survey - please complete our short survey by Friday 17 December 2021 - 15 December 2021
We have extended the closing date of our workforce survey to 17:00 on Friday 17 December, in recognition of the substantial time pressures on practices. Please do still take 10 minutes to complete it if a representative of your practice has yet to do so. GP partners and practice managers...The M Word issue 5 - Dr Michelle Drage's latest personal briefing for practices on NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
Here's the latest update on what has and what has not been going on over the last few weeks, and what is likely to happen over the Autumn. I will cover: Pathfinder Clinical Commissioning Groups (pCCGs) – previously...The M Word issue 1 - 13 December 2021
Dr Michelle Drage's personal briefing for practices on NHS reforms. This is the first in my personal series of briefings which will provide commentary and updates on key issues facing you and your practice as some of the NHS reforms kick in ahead of the Health Bill completing its passage...The M Word issue 6 - Dr Michelle Drage's latest personal briefing for practices on NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
I have 3 updates for you: The Health and Social Care Bill, 1 year on GP Primary Medical Services contractsThe M Word issue 2 - Dr Michelle Drage's personal briefing for practices on NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
In issue 1 I set out to make some sense of the language and jargon of the new NHS world and give you some not-so-subliminal messages about what we want to see happen and not happen from GP Commissioning. Now, almost two weeks later, much to my own surprise,...The M Word issue 3 - Dr Michelle Drage's briefing on NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
I thought I’d share three of my more serious thoughts to do with Providing General Practice and NOT commissioning (mostly!) The new transitional management landscape in London Our main job is Providing General Practice – enable us to get on and do it properly! Asserting our professionalism ...The M Word issue 4 - Dr Drage's briefing on the NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
The Day After... The Politics The Real World Michelle’s 3 step guide (definitely not a toolkit) to QIPP and GRIP Dr Michelle Drage FRCGPCEO Londonwide LMCs 1. The Politics So the listening exercise is over, the Field Future Forum (FFF) has reported, the...The M Word Issue 7 - Dr Michelle Drage's latest personal briefing for practices on NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
Through the fog I felt it timely to send a beam of light out into the fog and try to illumine the way ahead for general practice. Big breath, here goes: And in June 2010 all was rosy in the London GP Garden of Eden. Everyone...The M Word Issue 8 - Dr Michelle Drage's latest personal briefing for practices on NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
I know in General Practice we’re all supposed...The M Word - Issue 9 - 13 December 2021
Dear Colleague, Just before the second year of NHS ‘transition‘ draws to a close we are beginning to see how it will all fit together in London. There will be 3 interlocking strands in the new order: The new NHS...The M Word - Issue 10 - Dr Michelle Drage's latest personal briefing for practices on NHS reforms - 13 December 2021
Dear Colleague Another April, Another New NHS But this time it’s huge, so please see below for some sanity which I have drawn up from the perspective of practices as providers of General Practice.M word - Issue 11 - Measles - MMR Catch up Campaign - 13 December 2021
Dear Colleague Measles - MMR Catch up Campaign As you cannot have missed, The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has announced a national MMR catch up campaign, centred around GPs and practices, for 10-16 year olds. This is what is happening:...M word - Issue 12 - Measles - MMR catch up scheme UPDATE - 13 December 2021
Dear Colleague Measles - MMR catch up scheme UPDATE Here is an update based on current information and your responses to my message yesterday, for which we are very grateful. ...M word - Issue 13 - MMR catch up Programme update - 30 April 2013 - 13 December 2021
Dear Colleague Measles - MMR Catch up Programme UPDATE - 30 April 2013 It has now been announced that there will be an MMR vaccination catch-up programme in England. Please look at this letter from NHS England outlining the main...M word - Issue 14 - MMR catch up Programme update - 8 May 2013 - 13 December 2021
Dear Colleague,Measles - MMR Catch up Programme UPDATEThank you for all your questions. Here are a few more answers from our GP and practice support team along with some new information covering the following items: 1....
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