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Vaccination as Condition of Deployment (VCOD) measures set to be cancelled

Regulations requiring healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated by 1 April should no longer be applied, the Health Secretary Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP announced to Parliament on the evening of 31 January. Joint statement from the GMC and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, 10 February NHS England letter and FAQs re: VCOD, 8 February […]

Lambeth LMC newsletter – February 2022

Dear Colleague, We have become accustomed to frequent and varying advice to GPs, but the last-minute decision to reconsider Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment (VCOD) must be the nearest to a handbrake turn! In our meeting, we discussed how practices have spent time on this, it has affected relationships, some have lost staff, others […]

January 2022 Newsletter

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Covid medical exemption certificates guidance

The GP contract update made GPs responsible for actioning patient requests for Covid medical exemption certificates. Check our updated guidance for who to contact for help in the event of a complaint. Covid-19 vaccination medical exemption certificates guidance.  

Online and video consultation data collection

A data provision notice (DPN) for a data collection on Online and Video Consultation in General Practices  was issued to general practices in England on 10 January 2022. NHS England has directed NHS Digital to collect and analyse data in connection with online and video consultations in general practice. This data collection is to replace the summary […]