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Leaders from University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust have written to consultants and GPs following representation from LMCs. Their letter includes this advice: “Please actively have conversations with patients in order to maintain public confidence in primary care. There are other practical ways UCLH can help too, including supporting our teams to organise tests in […]

The Greater London Authority, on behalf of the Mayor of London, is urgently seeking participants for research into barriers faced by GP surgeries when registering new patients without proof of ID or address. The purpose of the project is to make the registering of patients easier by identifying gaps and increasing support to practices, acknowledging […]

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: Almost […]

For our February 2022 newsletter we round up recent activity happening in Westminster that affects general practice. Local councillors on Integrated Care Boards On the 9 February, Lord Kamall, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care, announced that councillors will be allowed to sit on integrated care boards (ICBs). Lord […]

NHS England has confirmed the eligibility of this new cohort, saying that they expect community pharmacy to lead on vaccinating them. 5–11-year-olds will receive reduced 0.2ml/10 mcg doses of the Pfizer vaccine, administered at least 12 weeks apart. The following guidance has been issued: Updated JCVI advice for vaccinating 5 to 11-year-olds COVID-19 vaccination: vaccine […]

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Regulations requiring healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated by 1 April should no longer be applied, the Health Secretary Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP announced to Parliament on the evening of 31 January. Joint statement from the GMC and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, 10 February NHS England letter and FAQs re: VCOD, 8 February […]

Dear Colleague, We have become accustomed to frequent and varying advice to GPs, but the last-minute decision to reconsider Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment (VCOD) must be the nearest to a handbrake turn! In our meeting, we discussed how practices have spent time on this, it has affected relationships, some have lost staff, others […]