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Londonwide LMCs’ May 2018 newsletter

May 2018 Newsletter Seven trusts cease to accept paper referrals Seven London hospital trusts will stop accepting paper referrals in either June or July. This is part of the national rollout of hospitals only being paid for referrals that are received via eRS. READ MORE   ► Download our ‘Beam to LMC’ app today Our […]

Our latest workforce survey closes on Monday 25 June

Thank you in advance for making space in your hectic day to complete our 12 minute survey on practice workforce issues which will help us to gather insight to share with key opinion formers and stakeholders, and to generate stories highlighting the pressures you are under for trade and national publications. Look out for an email […]

GDPR goes live 25 May 2018 – latest guidance for practices

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in less than 48 hours (25 May 2018). We have produced a round-up of a significant amount of guidance to help you with integrating GDPR compliance into your practice systems. Practice Index have released a helpful video designed for GPs to get them GDPR ready. You […]

Thank you to those who responded to our data-validation exercise

A big thank you to all the practices who responded to the data validation exercise, which ran between January-March 2018. We asked practices to confirm the details of the GPs and practice staff who are working at their practice. This exercise was undertaken to ensure we have an accurate and up to date list for […]

Seven London hospital trusts cease to accept paper referrals in June or July

From the 1 October eRS will be the only route for GP to Consultant-led first outpatient appointments, as part of the Standard Contract 2018/2019. However, Trusts have staggered paper switch-off dates before October 2018 after which they will return all non-eRS referrals including those sent my email. Please note this does not apply to diagnostics […]