Vacancy: Deputy Medical Director – three days per week, 13 month contract
Fixed-term from Nov 2024 - Dec 2025, London or home based, £78k + 16% employer pension contribution. Closes 9:00am, 19 August.
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Fixed-term from Nov 2024 - Dec 2025, London or home based, £78k + 16% employer pension contribution. Closes 9:00am, 19 August.
Plus: our safety resources, getting involved in speaking up for general practice and reporting pressures to make the case for greater support.
New Ministers can cut red tape to employ more GPs, alongside having an honest conversation about what the service is resourced to do.
Nomination papers for this year’s LMC elections were sent out in the week beginning 30 April 2018. This year every LMC seat is up for election. We want any GP working within the 27 London boroughs we represent to stand for election, regardless of their contractual status. We particularly welcome nominations from those GPs who […]
Childhood vaccination coding can be unexpectedly complex there are just 26 pre-school and school age vaccinations, but practices can record these vaccinations using over 1,000 different codes. Data export providers, Health Intelligence and Quality Medical Systems (QMS) have adopted a standard export for all possible vaccination codes. Phil Kirby from Health Intelligence says that for […]
Please click here to see the April 2018 Harrow LMC newsletter.
In response to concerns raised regarding GP relationships with the coroners’ office, we recently requested examples of problems experienced by GPs and practice staff. Examples provided so far include: coroners lack of consistency and the problems this is causing for GPs; issues over cremation form completion/medical examiners; inappropriate requests to confirm the fact of death; […]
March 2018 Newsletter UK LMC Conference On 9 March, LMCs met in Liverpool to debate issues which affect the whole of the UK and provide direction to the GPC. READ MORE ► LMC elections Next month you will have a chance to stand for election to your LMC. In May we will be holding […]
The House of Commons Library has release updated guidance on what documentation the GMC will accept as evidence that GPs, nurses and pharmacists have sufficient English language skills. These controls sought to “stop foreign healthcare professionals working in the NHS unless they have passed robust language and competence tests”. Initially set out in 2010, these […]
This year every LMC seat is up for election and next month you will have a chance to stand for election to your LMC. Any GP working in one of the 27 London boroughs we represent may be nominated for election regardless of their contractual status. We particularly welcome nominations from those GPs who are […]
On Thursday 15 March the Health and Social Care Select Committee took evidence from Sarah Wilkinson, Chief Executive Officer, NHS Digital; and Noel Gordon, Chair, NHS Digital on data sharing. The transcript can be seen here, highlights include the following snippets: Q103 Chair: In other words, you see yourselves as suppliers of data rather than custodians […]
This year’s LMC Conference saw debate on a range of issues of concern to London GPs: from Bawa-Garbar and the use of written reflections, to mass resignations, workload management, and GP at Hand. The national LMC Conference is the mechanism whereby LMCs representing grassroot GPs aim to set the direction for the GPC and BMA […]