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Practice management: what matters to you, free event for practice managers, 21 November – book your place now

Practice management: what matters to you Thursday 21 November 2019   The programme is designed to provide practice managers with the tools to deal with the changing environment of general practice by providing essential information on key issues affecting practice management. Topics covered at this free to attend event include the ‘vision for general practice in London’, […]

Cool running

As the weather heats up, pharmacy fridges have to work harder to maintain their temperature (2-8ºC). Have you checked whether yours are operating as they should? Now is also a good opportunity to ensure that there is enough capacity for your flu vaccine delivery. We recommend that you consider whether your surgery’s pharmacy fridge needs […]

Londonwide LMCs’ July 2019 Newsletter

July 2019 Newsletter Primary Care Networks update The start of this month saw the deadline for Primary Care Networks finalisation. We continue to update our PCN Model Schedules, as more information becomes available. We have also produced a timeline of PCN milestones over the next nine months. READ MORE   ► Digital-First consultation response Our […]

Employing Clinical Pharmacists in general practice event

Funmi Worrell, Programme Manager from Healthy London Partnership and Graham Stretch, Vice-President Primary Care Pharmacy Association, will be attending Londonwide LMCs on 30 July at 11am to talk about the benefits, role and employing of Clinical Pharmacists in general practice.  Practice staff who are interested in finding out more are invited to attend this free […]

Workforce survey summer 2019 initial findings

475 people working across 391 GP practices responded to the survey, representing 32% of the practices in the Londonwide LMCs’ area. Almost two fifths of responding practices have a GP planning to retire in the next three years, almost half have a vacancy for any staff role and a third have a vacancy for a […]

Upfront charging of overseas patients

The BMA Annual Representative Meeting last month carried a motion proposed by Dr Jackie Applebee, of Tower Hamlets Division, stating: “That this meeting calls on the BMA to publicly support the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Faculty of Public […]