Londonwide LMCs’ May 2018 newsletter

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May 2018 Newsletter

Seven trusts cease to accept paper referrals

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Seven London hospital trusts will stop accepting paper referrals in either June or July. This is part of the national rollout of hospitals only being paid for referrals that are received via eRS.

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Download our ‘Beam to LMC’ app today

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Our new app helps you to highlight the pressure you are under from commissioners and others by sharing unreasonable requests with us.

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Londonwide LMCs’ annual conference round-up

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On 2 May we hosted our annual conference – titled “London Calling” – at the Kia Oval, attended by almost 350 people.

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GDPR comes into effect on Friday

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May. We have collated some of the most useful guidance published to date.

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LMC election nominations close on 1 June

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If you would like to join your LMC, or continue as a member, you need to submit your election nomination form, with two named supporters, by 5:00pm on Friday 1 June.

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 Resource of the Month

imageHousing application guidance
Our GP State of Emergency guidance helps you to push back against inappropriate requests for letters in support of housing applications.
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Guidance Updates

GPC news
Sessional GP newsletter
NHS Digital to reduce data sharing with the Home Office
BMA guidance: low value medicine
NHS pensions and Capita
Local elections and Lewisham East by-election
Cameron Fund newsletter
Free leadership coaching available for practice teams in London
General Practice Awards

Londonwide Diary

May

25GDPR comes into effect
31HSJ Awards deadline

June

01LMC election nominations close
04‘Choosing Wisely’ hip and knee feedback deadline
08Home ventilation conference
13Consultation skills: increase your effectiveness
27Clinical supervision training

 

Acting as a supervisor for a doctor with conditions

This month our GP support team poses a challenge: ask not what your LMC can do for you – ask what you can do for your professional colleagues.

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Also this month…

Londonwide LMCs’ workforce survey

imageOur latest workforce survey will be arriving in your inboxes on 6 June. The information we gather from the survey provides vital evidence in our work to represent you.

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Medical Director vacancy

imageDue to a retirement, we are recruiting a Medical Director to join our GP Support team which covers GPs and their practice teams in all our LMC constituent areas. The role is part time (two days per week) and we have a flexible approach to accommodate different ways of working.

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Thank you to those who responded to our data-validation exercise

imageA big thank you to all the practices who responded to the data validation exercise, which ran between January-March 2018. We asked practices to confirm the details of the GPs and practice team members who are working at their practice.

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Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group adds new shredding service – sign up now!

imageA new shredding service has just been added to the Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group offer. If you have not already done so, make sure you sign up to the Buying Group to take advantage of this and other offers.

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Media and public affairs round-up

imageLondonwide LMCs’ CEO Dr Michelle Drage was interviewed by GPonline at our conference, resulting in a piece on GP at Hand and a piece calling for NHS England and CCGs to reduce administrative pressures on practices being published after the conference. Two days after the conference Michelle wrote a piece for the Huffington Post on the problems created for GPs by demand for un-resourced work. On 18 May the BMJ covered our analysis of where GP at Hand is drawing patients from (accessible with BMA members login).

We continue to be very active in promoting the interests of London GPs and practice staff on TwitterFacebook and LinkedIn. We also support practices that are approached with media requests. You can find details of how to get support here.

 

Got a story? Email us at comms@lmc.org.uk.
Deadline for next month’s submissions is 20 June.
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Last updated : 17 Oct 2018