Londonwide LMCs November 2024 newsletter
Covering: London General Practice Awards, workforce survey opens, LAS, BMA NI campaign, primary/ secondary care interface and more.
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Londonwide LMCs’ London General Practice Awards – nominations close 30 November
On 6 February 2025, we will be recognising the hard work of GPs and practice teams at an awards ceremony in the House of Commons.
Act now to keep your performance data anonymous
There is a narrow window of opportunity to push for a GP-led system of pressures reporting, before a top-down one is implemented.
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March 2022 Newsletter
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Tips of the month March 2022
We regularly share useful tips, guidance and details of contractual requirements on social media. Practices should familiarise themselves with their role in providing childhood immunisations to children born to hepatitis B infected mothers. https://t.co/6s11kgrDSj — Londonwide LMCs (@LondonwideLMCs) March 24, 2022 💡The arrangements for death certification and registration introduced by the Coronavirus Act expire on […]
Urgent Community Response Teams promotion campaign
NHS England are about to run an awareness campaign promoting “Urgent Community Response Teams” also known as Rapid Response – a service for adults (over the age of 18) experiencing a crisis which might result in an unplanned hospital admission without a two-hour crisis response. The teams are a mix of advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs), […]
General practice related parliamentary activity – March 2022
On 22 March, the Health and Social Care Committee held an oral evidence session for their Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care inquiry. Professor Dame Clare Gerada. Medical Director, NHS Practitioner Health and Chair, Doctors in Distress, spoke at the session. Dr Gerada began by noting more doctors had contacted Doctors […]
London MPs’ parliamentary questions and GP evidence to Health Select Committee
On 15 March, the Health and Social Care Committee held an evidence session for their inquiry into the future of general practice. MPs heard from Dr Kate Fallon, a GP Partner in Somerset, Dr Andrew Green, a retired GP, Dr Becks Fisher, Senior Policy Fellow at The Health Foundation, Prof Martin Marshall, RGCP Chair and […]
Vaccinations and immunisations for babies born to hepatitis B infected mothers
From 1 April 2021 vaccinations and immunisations became an essential service and GP practices are required, as part of their GMS contract, to provide vaccinations and immunisations to all eligible patients or target groups within their practice population. A component of the selective immunisation programme is the vaccination of babies born to mothers who have […]
New campaign to “Rebuild General Practice” launched
The Rebuild General Practice campaign aims to raise awareness of the recruitment, retention and workload challenges facing general practice by demonstrating how they impact on patient care. Launched on Monday 21 March, backed by the GPDF working with the BMA, the media and political influencing campaign has produced resources to support LMC messaging and engagement […]
Real time information on GP pressure
Londonwide LMCs is planning to launch an easy-to-use digital reporting system to gather and present real time information about the pressures on general practice across the Capital. The General Practice Alert State (GPAS) will collect practice information on a weekly basis in an anonymised and unidentifiable way to report on workload strains on general practice […]