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August 2022 Newsletter

Polio vaccination campaign

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Key national campaign documents, although some details will be agreed locally.

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Workforce survey results

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Our latest results show just under half of practices have one or more GP vacancies and two-fifths have at least one planning to retire by 2025.
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Covid vaccination documents

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Highlighting patient and professional facing documents ahead of this autumn’s Covid booster campaign.
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Template letters for inappropriate workload transfer

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Template letters for responding to inappropriate requests and tasking. With thanks to Cambridgeshire LMCs.
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Parliamentary round-up

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Health-related statements from the Conservative leadership contest.
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Resource of the Month

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What we know so far about the new medical examiner system ahead of implementation in April.
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Guidance Updates

GPC newsletter
Mandatory freedom to speak up template
PCSE newsletter
Animations: using online forms on GP websites
Animations: convenience of online, video and phone contact
National Data Guardian annual report>

Londonwide Diary

September

01 Anti-money laundering registration deadline
07 Influenza immunisation update>
08 Effective appraisals and personal development
22 Maternity return to work course
22 General practice management training programme
28 End of life care

October

12 Annual immunisations update
19 Maternity return to work course

November


01 Patient access to records
 

Advice for newly qualified GPs

Dr Natalie Rout, Vice Chair of Camden LMC and Dr Alex Lai, Chair of Wandsworth LMC are both First5 GPs, and share their advice for newly qualified GPs.

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Flu vaccination documents

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Patient- and profession-facing documents ahead of this autumn’s flu campaign, including details of suppliers with stock following the late notice expansion in cohorts.

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Retaining international GP trainees

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Current visa regulations create barriers for many international medical graduate (IMG) GP trainees who want to continue working in the UK post-qualification. If you are an IMG trainee, or looking to employ someone who is, we would like to hear your experience.

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Remember to use BEAM to LMC to highlight the pressure you are under

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Our BEAM to LMC mobile app, which enables you to tell us about the pressures you are under from commissioners and others, is proving popular. Make sure you check the app for push notifications.

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Media and public affairs round-up

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On 23 August Dr Michelle Drage, our CEO, was quoted in a Wired piece on digital disruptors in healthcare. On 15 August Michelle was quoted in the Independent in a story on the pressures created by this autumn’s vaccination campaigns. On 11 August Michelle was quoted in Pulse and GPOnline regarding practices' capacity to deliver the polio booster campaign. On 2 August Michelle was quoted in a Pulse story on the abuse of practice staff.

We continue to be very active in promoting the interests of London GPs and practice staff on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. If you have an example of general practice doing something well which could make a news story please get in touch. We also support practices that are approached with media requests. You can find details here.

 
Got a story? Email us at comms@lmc.org.uk.
Deadline for next month's submissions is Wednesday 14 September
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