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Londonwide LMCs June 2025 newsletter

Covering: new CEO, workforce survey last chance, LMC elections, spotlight on patient engagement, UK LMC Conference motions and more.

Keeping true to our values while under pressure

Ahead of our annual conference: ‘Under Pressure: stabilise, transform, and sustain general practice for London’, Dr Michelle Drage takes a look at some of the challenges facing London general practice. If you are booked onto our conference you can hear Michelle expand on these themes in her keynote speech tomorrow, 27 April 2017. The London […]

Londonwide LMCs’ April 2017 newsletter

  April 2017 Newsletter Keeping true to our values while under pressure Dr Michelle Drage looks at the challenges facing London’s GPs and practice teams and the values at the heart of successfully meeting them. READ MORE   ► 2017-19 NHS Standard Contract changes The new Standard Contract contains some more measures intended to reduce […]

Child safeguarding reports – where does your practice stand with local authorities?

This item was originally published in April 2017, following feedback from LMCs we can now add that Hammersmith and Fulham Council do pay GPs for child protection reports and have a mechanism for practices to claim for the service. Ealing and Hounslow LMC are currently in discussion to clarify that the service is non-contractual and practices […]

Londonwide LMCs’ March 2017 newsletter

  March 2017 Newsletter Unresourced and unfunded work Our workforce survey and feedback from practices show significant demand for work outside of the core contract being put on London’s GP practices. READ MORE   ► Budget summary The Spring Budget provides no extra money for general practice, £2bn was announced for social care, which the […]