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.
Update, 30 August 2022: Since we sent our initial message to practices a number of resources for the campaign have been released, which are listed here: Patient resources: Have your polio vaccine now – information for parents. This leaflet is also available as PDF and printed copies of the English version can be ordered from […]
Read our July 2022 Newsletter on the CQC Regulation review, the Mayor thanking London practice teams and the new patient record access date.
New workforce report On Monday 25 July the Health and Social Care Select Committee published it’s report Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care. Key points relating to general practice include: The lack of a workforce plan from the Government means they are not on track to deliver the 6,000 extra FTE […]
The CQC recently conducted a post-implementation review of three sets of regulations made under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, specifically: Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009 Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 Care Quality Commission (Reviews and Performance Assessments) Regulations 2018 The consultation consisted of questions, with respondents prompted […]
The review of general practice by Professor Claire Fuller has moved from being a ‘stock take’ of how ready the service is for NHS England’s integration agenda to looking at what changes can be made to implement integration. In a panel event hosted by Policy Exchange on 20 July Prof Fuller spoke about ‘stocktake implementation’. […]
Dear colleagues, Here is the news from this month’s Waltham Forest LMC meeting. Long Covid Dr Mike Grenville, the LMC Chair, is participating in a Long Covid working group. The form to access treatment has been greatly reduced, and should be available in the practice clinical software system. The LMC will continue to work on […]
Dear colleagues, Here is the news from the July Tower Hamlets LMC meeting: Enhanced Access Several Primary Care Networks in the borough are working with the GP Care Group towards providing Enhanced Access (EA) appointments on a ‘hybrid model’ – some by the PCN and some by the Care Group. Other networks are planning to […]
For South Asian Heritage Month Dr Chaand Nagpaul writes about the contribution of these doctors to the NHS and the challenges they have faced.
Note: this page is now out of date, please see our most recent guidance. Patients with an existing online account will automatically be given access to future (prospective) entries to their patient record, including free text, letters and documents when a new system of access is implemented. This was originally due to come into effect […]