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MWord 117, covering: new Government, GPCE message to Wes Streeting and collective action ballot
Plus: our safety resources, getting involved in speaking up for general practice and reporting pressures to make the case for greater support.
Media comment: new Government has opportunity to reverse degradation of core general practice
New Ministers can cut red tape to employ more GPs, alongside having an honest conversation about what the service is resourced to do.
Guidance updates December 2021
The most important pieces of guidance released for general practice since our November 2021 newsletter are: Regulatory approval of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 and Regulatory approval of Spikevax (formerly COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna) (MHRA guidance), 15 minute observation period temporarily suspended, updated 14.12.2021. Preparing the NHS for the potential impact of the Omicron variant and other winter pressures (NHS England […]
December 2021 Newsletter
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Annual General Meeting for Londonwide LMCs and Londonwide Enterprise Ltd
The Annual General Meeting for Londonwide LMCs and Londonwide Enterprise Ltd will be held on Thursday 20 January 2022 between 2:00pm and 3.15pm. The AGM is a chance to meet the Board of Directors and hear about progress in the last year and plans for the year ahead, details of accounts for both companies and […]
PCSE updates on contact details and pooled lists
Correct contact details Practices can improve communications with PCSE by ensuring that they have the most up to date practice contact details, including: The main practice contact All user administrators The designated Performers List approver The designated GP Payments & Pensions (GPPP) approver These may be the same person. However, providing PCSE with contact details […]
Tips of the month December 2021
We provide weekly tips based on common queries which come through to us from London GPs and practice teams. These are shared via social media and collated for this newsletter.
Covid-19 antiviral pilots
The government announced this month that thousands of the UK’s most vulnerable people will be among the first in the world to access a new antiviral treatment for Covid-19, Molnupiravir. This will take the form of pilot prescribing antivirals to vulnerable people who have caught Covid-19 and a study combining providing antivirals and placebos to […]
Dr Michelle Drage’s Christmas and New Year message
Thank you for simply still being here after the year you and all London general practices have had. With relentless pressure coming from clinically necessary activity, and the equally relentless weight of needless political choices, it’s easy to lose sight of what you have accomplished over the last 12 months, but it is worth reflecting […]
Registering overseas vaccinations at vaccination sites
On 9 December the Government updated guidance advising patients who wish to add an overseas Covid-19 vaccination to their NHS record to do so by booking a specific type of appointment at a vaccination centre. This is only applicable to vaccinations received abroad that are also approved for use in the UK, by updating these […]
Update: NHS England advise gradual return to normal Becton Dickinson container stock
On 29 November NHS England issued its latest update on the Becton Dickinson blood test container supply problem. Previously, NHS England advised that Becton Dickinson containers should only be ordered “little and often”, with the aim of practices holding no more than one week’s stock at any time. This update suggests that organisations can slowly return to business-as-usual stock levels, […]