The NHS’s new plan will see all practices joining Primary Care Networks by 2020 and providing online appointments by 2024. £4.5bn of extra funding will go into primary care by 2024.
Practices who have received Rent Agreement Letters from NHS Property Services are under no obligation to sign them and are advised to seek legal advice.
At the end of November NHS England wrote to practices asking them to begin ordering currently licensed vaccines. We can help practices with this via the Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group.
Supporting patients to stay healthy in the community
Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, Deputy Chief Executive of Londonwide LMCs, looks at how practices can use sign-posting to community groups to encourage and support patients to fulfil their New Year’s resolutions.
Further guidance on GDPR has been issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Government have clarified they will not be exempting GPs from the obligation to provide free subject access requests.
We are expanding our Practice Manager Forum to include all general practice managers, business managers, finance managers, operations managers and data quality managers. Please get in touch to join our new network.
Remember to use BEAM to LMC to highlight the pressure you are under
Our BEAM to LMC mobile app, which enables you to tell us about the pressures you are under from commissioners and others, is proving popular. Make sure you check the app for push notifications.
We continue to be very active in promoting the interests of London GPs and practice staff on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. If you have an example of general practice doing something well which could make a news story please get in touch. We also support practices that are approached with media requests. You can find details here.
