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The Information Governance Alliance (IGA), which includes the Department of Health, NHS England, NHS Digital and Public Health England, is in the process of producing guidance for GDPR ahead of it coming into force in May this year. It is worth keeping a check on the IGA GDPR website whilst definitive guidance is developed. The latest guidance […]

Healthy London Partnership (HLP), brings together London CCGs, NHS England and other partners to assist with the delivery of better health and care for all Londoners. HLP has a range of tools and resources to support GPs and practice staff provide health and wellbeing care for children and young people (CYP). Free event: How to transform […]

At our recent finance event for GPs and practice managers, Sian Clapton from NHS England London’s premises team, provided us with contact details for the team. Any issues relating to premises reimbursements or rent reviews should go in the first instance to the premises team. Contact is via the relevant generic inbox for your area: England.gpreimbursementncl@nhs.net […]

On Friday 29 January 2018 members of Lambeth LMC met Chuka Umunna MP at the Exchange Surgery in his Streatham constituency. The LMC members covered the challenges around recruitment, retention and workload and how the three impact on each other. They also covered Lambeth’s successes with collaborative working and what more could be done to […]

Kenny Gibson, Head of Public Health Commissioning (London) and NHS England London’s lead on flu vaccinations shares his tips for anticipating the cycle of winter illnesses and getting the best value when buying in vaccine stock. There has been a positive shift in our population’s approach to vaccines. More and more people are seeing the […]

This year every LMC seat is up for election. Any GP working in one of the 27 London boroughs we represent may be nominated for election regardless of their contractual status. We particularly welcome nominations from those GPs who are under-represented on current LMCs. As Dr Hannah Theodorou, a sessional GP member of Waltham Forest […]

Our GP support team have seen an increase in the number of ‘Inadequate’ and ‘Requires Improvement’ CQC reports which identify the lack of awareness, discussion and/or documentation of Significant Event Analysis (SEA) by practices as a problem. We suggest practices read this page detailing the CQCs view of SEA and what they are looking for during […]

Many practices are starting to plan for winter 2018 and are pre-ordering their flu vaccines. Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group, through our buying partner MidMeds, has negotiated a specially discounted rate for member practices. The discounted rate of 50% of the normal cost has been offered for Influvac QIV and Generic QIV, the rate has been […]

On Tuesday 30 January 2018 over 200 GPs and practice managers attended our two ‘Securing practice finances – an easy guide to year end closure and managing future finances‘ workshops. Here are the resources from the day (all documents are PDF unless otherwise stated): Overview of the current London wide landscape and the GP State […]