News

Please click here to read the latest Tower Hamlets LMC news update.

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. NHS England letter re: VCOD, 31 January A statutory two week consultation period will take place and then the Government will move […]

Please click here to read the latest Islington LMC news update.  

Please click here to read the latest Waltham Forest LMC news update.

Read our January 2022 newsletter Tell us what you think about our website by completing our quick survey here.

The GP contract update made GPs responsible for actioning patient requests for Covid medical exemption certificates. Check our updated guidance for who to contact for help in the event of a complaint. Covid-19 vaccination medical exemption certificates guidance.  

A data provision notice (DPN) for a data collection on Online and Video Consultation in General Practices  was issued to general practices in England on 10 January 2022. NHS England has directed NHS Digital to collect and analyse data in connection with online and video consultations in general practice. This data collection is to replace the summary […]

Dr David Mummery is a member of Hammersmith and Fulham LMC and Clinical Speciality Lead for Primary Care, North West London Clinical Research Network. He writes here about why practice participation in the PANORAMIC study is important. PANORAMIC stands for: The Platform Adaptive Trial of Novel antiviRals for eArly treatment of COVID-19 In the Community Launching on […]

In December, the House of Commons’ Health and Social Care Committee published their report on clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic. Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in August 2021, quoted in the report, suggested growth in waiting lists was smaller than would be expected. This is partly because the number of people joining […]