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We are delighted that so many practices have joined our new Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group. The group will give registered London practices unique discounts on key products and services. To take advantage of these discounts, and increase our collective buying power, please register your interest by clicking here. Please note that Londonwide LMCs recently refreshed its buying […]

Our sold-out practice finance workshops in January provided the opportunity for GPs and practice staff ask questions to a number of experts and organisations; we have summarised some of these questions for those who were unable to attend. National Engagement Team (NET) update on Primary Care Support England services – Guy Dickie, PCSE Notable points: […]

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has rejected the proposed merger between NHS Property Services (NHSPS) and Community Health Partnerships (CHP), which was one of the recommendations of Sir Robert Naylor’s review of NHS property and estates. The NHS Property Board will not be at ‘arm’s length’ from the Department of Health as […]

At our recent finance event for GPs and practice managers NHS England London’s vaccinations and immunisations team gave the following advice to practices when submitting their childhood immunisations (0-5) data to Open Exeter. Always choose ‘save’ AND ‘submit’ to ensure your data is submitted correctly to Open Exeter. Choosing ‘save’ on its own will not submit the […]

The Greenwich LMC February 2018 news update is available here.

The Information Governance Alliance (IGA), which includes the Department of Health, NHS England, NHS Digital and Public Health England, is in the process of producing guidance for GDPR ahead of it coming into force in May this year. It is worth keeping a check on the IGA GDPR website whilst definitive guidance is developed. The latest guidance […]

Healthy London Partnership (HLP), brings together London CCGs, NHS England and other partners to assist with the delivery of better health and care for all Londoners. HLP has a range of tools and resources to support GPs and practice staff provide health and wellbeing care for children and young people (CYP). Free event: How to transform […]

At our recent finance event for GPs and practice managers, Sian Clapton from NHS England London’s premises team, provided us with contact details for the team. Any issues relating to premises reimbursements or rent reviews should go in the first instance to the premises team. Contact is via the relevant generic inbox for your area: England.gpreimbursementncl@nhs.net […]

On Friday 29 January 2018 members of Lambeth LMC met Chuka Umunna MP at the Exchange Surgery in his Streatham constituency. The LMC members covered the challenges around recruitment, retention and workload and how the three impact on each other. They also covered Lambeth’s successes with collaborative working and what more could be done to […]