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The Newham LMC December 2020 newsletter is available by clicking here.

14 December 2020 Dear Colleague, Brace Brace The Health Secretary has just delivered a statement to Parliament: New variant of Covid-19 virus in South East of the UK. Doubling time is now 7 days. Not known if these are linked. Not just in children. Over 60s also increasingly affected. London and South East, South Essex, […]

December 2020 Newsletter Updated Covid-19 vaccination microsite Numerous updates have been made to our microsite in the last few days, including curated links of over 100 pieces of guidance. READ MORE   ► Integrated Care System legislation consultation Our full response to the ICS new legal structure consultation will be on our website from 22 […]

A new NHS England report seeking views on proposals to create a new legal structure for ICS was published recently, setting out plans to place ICS on a statutory footing and advance the longstanding aim of integrating health and care. Londonwide LMCs has submitted this response to the consultation which we hope will help inform any comments […]

This winter Londonwide LMCs has created three new videos to help Londoners stay safe and continue to use general practice appropriately despite the pandemic.

In the first two weeks of December 2020, we published three new documents to support practices who have signed-up to deliver the Covid-19 Vaccination Programme Enhanced Service (ES). Medicolegal matters relating to the administration of the Covid-19 vaccination. Coronavirus vaccination programme (CVP) collaboration agreement guidance and accompanying amendable template. Covid-19 vaccination checklist guidance and accompanying checklist template. Our full guidance on […]

4 December 2020 Dear Colleague STOP PRESS: Further update following this morning’s Mword. As promised, we’ve analysed the ES papers, considering the contractual details and ramifications, in good time for you to consider over the weekend and with your practice team through Monday. Here it is, our guidance for practices on the Covid Vaccination Programme 2020/21 Service […]

3 December 2020 Dear Colleague I’m sure you can’t have missed the high-profile announcements of new developments with regard to vaccine regulation and licensing. We finally have (some) more detail about the ES (not DES), and we are analysing the ES papers and will share further comments on Monday, in good time before the 23.59 […]

4 December 2020 Dear Colleague I wrote to you yesterday setting out some of the new details we think we know (and some of those that we don’t) about the delivery and requirements of the new Covid-19 Vaccination Enhanced Service (ES). With things moving quickly, and new information about the Covid-19 Vaccination Programme coming out thick and […]