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Read out latest newsletter on enhanced access, fit note changes and NHS Property Services.

We regularly share useful tips, guidance and details of contractual requirements on social media. 💡 Practices may find this @NHSEngland guidance on meeting the initial health needs of people arriving in the 🇬🇧 from 🇺🇦 helpful👇https://t.co/PXDTR3lTGf — Londonwide LMCs (@LondonwideLMCs) June 16, 2022 💡 Practices may wish to note @NHSEngland's updated national infection prevention and […]

On 21 June the Labour Party used their ‘Opposition Day’, an opportunity for non-government parties to choose debate topics, to raise the issue of ‘Access to GP Services and NHS Dentistry’. The sessions can be watched here. Wes Streeting, the shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Ilford North MP, affirmed that […]

On Friday, the government published a response to the data protection consultation, Data: a new direction – government response to consultation – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) , ahead of the release of the Data Reform Bill. This week they also released a Parliamentary Statement on planned data reforms (20 June). This consultation was conducted late last year […]

On 8 June, General Sir Gordon Messenger published his report into the state of leadership and management in the health and social care sector. Titled “leadership for a collaborative and inclusive future”, the report focuses on areas which “improve awareness of the impact that good leadership can have, and which instill it as an instinctive […]

Dr Emma Radcliffe is a member of Tower Hamlets LMC, a GP in the borough and Primary Care Net Zero lead for North East London. Ahead of London Climate Action Week she writes about how practices can be more sustainable. It is difficult to think about anything at the moment in general practice other than […]

We understand that practices are experiencing pressure to complete and return enhanced access plans. These plans must, according to guidance, ‘be submitted to the commissioner for agreement on or before 31 July 2022 by the method the commissioner has indicated’. The NHS England London regional team has produced a template that can be used. If […]

A case brought by five GP practices against NHS Property Services (NHSPS) has concluded with a judgement being given in the High Court. The practices, supported by the BMA, had sought to challenge service charges imposed by NHSPS as their landlord. The judge found that NHSPS was entitled to claim service charges from practices, including […]

From 1 July 2022 nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, and physiotherapists are able to certify fit notes, which previously only a doctor could do. This follows on from the removal of the requirement for physical signatures on fit notes introduced last month.