9 May 2022 Dear Colleague “Living With Covid” – the hidden impact on capacity and safety NHS England tell us that Covid related staff sickness and absence is falling… in London’s NON-GP organisations… But this is not what we are witnessing with GP and staff sickness and absence right now in our practices. Just because […]
28 April 2022 Dear Colleague Welcome to our latest Mword. With the permission of our CEO Michelle, I have borrowed the MWord format to update you on the PCN DES. The question for you this week is “Can you and your team afford to sign up to the PCN DES, and can you afford not […]
Read our April 2022 newsletter. This month it covers the PCN DES, fit notes, MDO membership and more. Tell us what you think about our website by completing our quick survey here.
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.
Thank you for taking the time to complete our December 2021 workforce survey at time when practice teams were so overstretched. We had 327 responses from 277 individual member practices, of Londonwide LMCs’ 1,152 member practices that were invited to participate in the research, this represents a response rate of 24%. Other headline figures include: […]
22 December 2021 Dear Colleague, As we move through a December that feels like a carbon copy of the last one, I have three things to cover: Thank you for all you’re doing Masks Prioritising care Thank you for all you’re doingOver this year, practices across the country have given more than half (52m out […]
During late November and December 2021 representatives from Londonwide LMCs have continued to meet with MPs, councillors and the police to raise issues affecting practices. We have also submitted evidence on the challenges facing London’s practices to Parliament and are considering responses to further consultations. Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry in the future […]
The most important pieces of guidance released for general practice since our November 2021 newsletter are: Regulatory approval of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 and Regulatory approval of Spikevax (formerly COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna) (MHRA guidance), 15 minute observation period temporarily suspended, updated 14.12.2021. Preparing the NHS for the potential impact of the Omicron variant and other winter pressures (NHS England […]
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The Annual General Meeting for Londonwide LMCs and Londonwide Enterprise Ltd will be held on Thursday 20 January 2022 between 2:00pm and 3.15pm. The AGM is a chance to meet the Board of Directors and hear about progress in the last year and plans for the year ahead, details of accounts for both companies and […]
Correct contact details Practices can improve communications with PCSE by ensuring that they have the most up to date practice contact details, including: The main practice contact All user administrators The designated Performers List approver The designated GP Payments & Pensions (GPPP) approver These may be the same person. However, providing PCSE with contact details […]
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.
The government announced this month that thousands of the UK’s most vulnerable people will be among the first in the world to access a new antiviral treatment for Covid-19, Molnupiravir. This will take the form of pilot prescribing antivirals to vulnerable people who have caught Covid-19 and a study combining providing antivirals and placebos to […]
