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In May Health Education England (HEE) London published a report based on a survey of over 1,000 people working in primary care, looking at their experiences of discrimination from both patients and people working within the health system. The report and accompanying research were led by Dr Naureen Bhatti, HEE London Workforce Race Strategy Primary […]

The Rebuild General Practice (Rebuild GP) campaign is being jointly run by the BMA and General Practitioner’s Defence Fund (GPDF). On Monday 23 May the campaign published an open letter to patients which GPs are encouraged to sign and share with their patients, including via social media. Rebuild GP are also planning to meet with […]

Our latest workforce survey closes on Monday 4 July, if you think your practice has not received the invite email please contact info@lmc.org.uk. Thank you in advance for making space in your busy day to complete our short survey on practice workforce issues which will help us to gather insight to share with key opinion […]

The four nations LMC conference took place on 10 and 11 May 2022 in York. The full agenda, including voting and election results, can be read here, the five motions proposed by LMCs from the Londonwide LMCs’ area are listed in full below, including the result of the vote on them and a timestamp for […]

The Primary Medical Care Policy and Guidance Manual (PGM) has been updated to version four, this is the first update since December 2020. The updated document and a summary of guidance changes are available on the NHS England website. Should anyone need to compare it with the previous version, version three can be viewed here. […]

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 […]

Dear colleagues, The principal discussions in our April LMC meeting were about our local contracts. These comprise mainly the premium part of our PMS contracts and the Lambeth Primary Care Incentive scheme (LPCIS, which includes the GP Delivery Framework as it was called, and the medicines optimisation scheme). Revisions had been proposed due to changes […]

Dear colleagues, Southwark LMC is working to keep Southwark GPs, practice managers and nurses, and all those interested in primary care informed of what the LMC has been working on and provide details of all current LMC members. We aim to inform you of developments that are important to you with a regular newsletter. We […]

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 […]