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The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) have produced useful guidance and posters to help raise the issue of the importance of data privacy with the practice team. The posters are part of the ICO’s ‘Think.Check.Share’ toolkit and cover some of the most common mistakes seen by the ICO, including sending information to the wrong recipient, leaving […]

We provide weekly tips based on common queries which come through to us from London GPs and practice teams. These are shared via social media and collated for this newsletter.   28 QOF indicators will be retired this year and 15 new ones introduced. The new ones relate to diabetes, blood pressure, cervical screening, weight […]

We celebrated International Nurses Day on 12 May by highlighting the contribution of nurses on social media.   Did you know that only 11.4% of registered nurses in the UK are men, and only 2.1% of men work in general practice? It would be good to see more male general practice nurses in the healthcare […]

We are hosting a digital round table event to discuss issues relating to expanding IT use in general practice. This is more than an information-sharing exercise with peers, it will also provide an opportunity for IT leads to feed back to a representative of NHS England on what they think about the future of IT […]

15 May 2019 Dear Colleague: I have just one topic for you NEW: Londonwide LMCs’ updates on the new national PCN DES Contract After the bells and whistles launch of the new national PCN DES Contract in January, today is the long awaited deadline for submission of your Primary Care Network information via the network […]

April 2019 Newsletter New Primary Care Network updates NHS England and the BMA have published the long awaited Network Agreement and supporting documents for the Primary Care Network DES in advance of the submission date. We also have new details on indemnity (see below). READ MORE   ► Sessional GP subcommittee nominations close tomorrow Nominations for […]

April saw Practice Manager Leads Forum come together for discussions, updates and networking at the first of their 2019 meetings. Presentations included: Cervical screening updates and issues within the NHSCSP and Sample Takers. Data Protection update. CQC inspection changes for 2019 and CQC hot topics. A facilitated session around what practices are currently doing to […]

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Health Care Support Workers Forum (HCSW Forum) on Thursday 13 June. It is our pleasure to invite healthcare support workers, healthcare assistants, assistant practitioners and associate practitioners across London to join in. The focus of the first meeting will be on career development and apprenticeships, with talks […]

As we reported in our February 2019 newsletter, type 2 opt-outs have been replaced by the national data opt-out. This means that practices must not use the type 2 opt-out code to record a patient’s opt-out choice as these are no longer collected and processed. A letter was sent to all GP Practices in March 2019 […]