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New workforce report On Monday 25 July the Health and Social Care Select Committee published it’s report Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care. Key points relating to general practice include: The lack of a workforce plan from the Government means they are not on track to deliver the 6,000 extra FTE […]

The CQC recently conducted a post-implementation review of three sets of regulations made under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, specifically: Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009 Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 Care Quality Commission (Reviews and Performance Assessments) Regulations 2018 The consultation consisted of questions, with respondents prompted […]

The review of general practice by Professor Claire Fuller has moved from being a ‘stock take’ of how ready the service is for NHS England’s integration agenda to looking at what changes can be made to implement integration.  In a panel event hosted by Policy Exchange on 20 July Prof Fuller spoke about ‘stocktake implementation’. […]

Dear colleagues, Here is the news from this month’s Waltham Forest LMC meeting. Long Covid Dr Mike Grenville, the LMC Chair, is participating in a Long Covid working group. The form to access treatment has been greatly reduced, and should be available in the practice clinical software system. The LMC will continue to work on […]

Dear colleagues, Here is the news from the July Tower Hamlets LMC meeting: Enhanced Access Several Primary Care Networks in the borough are working with the GP Care Group towards providing Enhanced Access (EA) appointments on a ‘hybrid model’ – some by the PCN and some by the Care Group. Other networks are planning to […]

For South Asian Heritage Month Dr Chaand Nagpaul writes about the contribution of these doctors to the NHS and the challenges they have faced.

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22 July 2022 Dear Colleague They know price of everything and the value of nothing Today your national representatives unanimously resolved to reject the UK Government’s 2.1% for partners and 4.5% for other GP roles. At a meeting of GPC England, which I and a number of London colleagues attended as elected reps, we passed […]