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Engage and Connect – Catch up with what all Sessional GPs MUST know Are you salaried? Who could be employing you if MCPs potentially take over GMS and PMS? What is an MCP? Would you even have a choice in working for one? Would they offer an NHS pension? What about CPD, sick/parental leave? How […]
Our Patient Engagement Project hosted a successful roundtable event last month which focussed on building working relationships with third sector stakeholders to benefit practices in their work with their patient participation groups (PPGs).
We will provide real-time Twitter updates from our Ealing, Hammersmith and Houslow sessional GP open meeting on 31 January, to allow those who are interested but cannot attend to follow online. Anyone with internet access can follow the discussion, you do not need a Twitter account, simply go to Twitter and search for the hastag […]
Our GP Support team’s Jan Swannell shares how she managed online complaints during her time as a practice manager in North London. After 15 years as a practice manager I joined Londonwide LMCs’ GP Support team last August as an assistant manager. In my time as practice manager I have, like most of you, seen […]
On 24 January Jeremy Hunt MP appeared before the House of Common’s Health Select Committee to answer questions on the impact of the UK leaving the European Union (EU). Highlights of Jeremy Hunt’s evidence to the Committee include: He was unable to provide guarantees on UK citizen’s right to access services covered by the European […]
Registry Offices and certificates are refusing to accepted Medical Certificate of Cause of Deaths (MCCDs) without GMC numbers on them. GPs working using old books of blank death certificates should write their GMC number next to their signature, those using newer books will see that a field has been added to the certificates for their GMC […]
The Government’s weekly updates on the prevalence of winter illnesses and weather conditions in England can be found on the gov.uk website The data for the reports comes from four individual weekly Public Health England reports: Syndromic surveillance National seasonal influenza Norovirus and rotavirus All-cause mortality surveillance
The NHS winter crisis and the Prime Minister’s run-in with GPs The weekend of 14 January saw general practice and Theresa May come to blows over claims about the impact of GP opening hours on accident and emergency attendances. This story broke as the Government sought to quell reports of a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in the […]
Exclusive event for Londonwide practices Building an inclusive PPG and how to develop virtual PPGs Wednesday 22 February 2017 This is the second in a series of three workshops to support practices and their Patient Participation Groups in working effectively together in the current climate of change and challenge for general practice. […]
