Londonwide LMCs

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to present our latest newsletter, which highlights the recent work and collaborative efforts between Harrow LMC and Londonwide LMCs along with other local stakeholders. Following LMC elections this summer, Harrow LMC started a new three-year term of office on 1 September 2025, please do make yourselves familiar with your local representatives which can be found here:

Harrow LMC Membership and Contact info

What we do
We are here to support practices and to represent the interests of all local GPs and their practice teams. Our key priorities is that we hear the issues and concerns that matter to our local GPs and practices to influence our work. We recognise that this is a two way conversation and we will be embarking on a more personal practice/ constituency engagement to hear and listen to your concerns about the pressures GPs and practices are facing, but we also need you to reach out to us with any issues or concerns by emailing Amy Honor, Committee Liaison Executive amy.honor@lmc.org.ukamy.honor@lmc.org.uk.

What has Harrow LMC been working on recently?

Primary Care Provider Collaborative (PCPC) – Harrow update
Harrow Primary Care Networks and Harrow Local Medical Committee held a successful evening workshop on Thursday 25 September to discuss the NWL Primary Care Provider Collaborative and who represented Harrow on this board. Since this event each practice has been given the opportunity to vote on the proposals. Thank you to all that engaged in this process. This piece of work is moving at great pace with several developments of the PCPC since the event and voting process. The latest update is that the PCPC will be a provider alliance which will be a Community Interest Company (CIC). We will keep you updated as information becomes available.

Community services – complex wound care
The LMC are aware of a number of concerns over the recent changes to Complex Wound Care and Tissue Viability Services. It was discussed at our last LMC meeting and the LMC will be writing to CLCH to raise these concerns formally.

Cardiovascular Renal and Metabolic (CRM) service
NWL ICB are intending to include CRM service to the Single Offer Enhanced Services contract for 26/27 following the work Harrow has been doing. The aim would be to simplify and unify existing service specifications within the current Single Offer. The LMC are attending multiple pan NWL meeting to discuss this service and the proposed specification as it does differ to the current service on offer in Harrow. The LMC and LLMCs will continue to engage in these conversations and will share updates once available.

Primary/secondary care interface
The LMC’s drafted Service Alert form, is still being trailed in a number of practices. The hope is this template will allow all GP’s and practices within Harrow to be able to use this on pushing back on inappropriate work. If your Practice would like to take part in this trial please do get in contact with Amy Honor.

Following recent Interface meetings, NWL Trusts have committed to a timeline of four weeks to create a centralised web page with ward and outpatient contact details for patients, to be linked/referenced in Trust correspondence. Concurrently, Trust clinicians are being asked to provide bespoke contact information. This work will be supported by audit tools. This is something we have been pushing for, for a long time.

Quick wins for GPs to reduce SMS messaging
Harrow LMC are aware some practices are getting close to the capped funded amount per patient for sending SMS’s which may have an impact on practice finances. A quick win to reduce costs is below:

Encourage your patients:

To provide an email address if you do not have one on file: sending via email is free and may be preferred for sending attachments or for less digital patients.
To download the NHS App and turn ON the notification setting for the app. If a message is not read within the NHS App it will revert to being sent as an SMS text after 24 hours.

Before you send an SMS:

Check patients’ numbers – an SMS sent to the wrong number is still charged.
If you have practice or personal templates you use a lot, make them fragment-efficient and with shortened links – check your top templates with your SMS supplier.

More website and communication tips can be found here.

NWL LMC Updates
Pan NWL updates can be found in the monthly updates. Here is the latest.

LMC Engagement – What’s the best way to contact you?
Harrow LMC is currently looking at how it engages with our colleagues in general practice across Harrow, and we would be grateful if you would let us know the most efficient way(s) of reaching you. We are open to any method of communication and would appreciate your feedback regarding the methods we could adopt. These could include (but are not limited to):

Local Newsletters
Social media
Local Practice visits
Attending meetings/events
Clinical group meetings
PCN CD meetings
PM forums
Email alerts
All/some of the above

In addition to the above we would be grateful if you could let us know how regularly you wish to be updated, we are aware that practices receive multiple communications throughout your working week, so we do not wish to over burden you, but are keen to keep you as up to date as possible with the work that the LMC is carrying out on your behalf. If you want to provide feedback regarding the above questions, please contact amy.honor@lmc.org.uk and we will feed this into our comms plan, in order to enhance engagement with our constituents.

GP Support Team
The GP Support team provides expert, confidential and bespoke advice and support to individual constituent GPs and practices in difficulties. – Contact: GPSupport@lmc.org.uk.

Resources

Events and training

GP Support Team

The GP Support team provides expert, confidential and bespoke advice and support to individual constituent GPs and practices in difficulties. – Contact: GPSupport@lmc.org.uk

Get in touch!

All constituents can raise any issues of concern with the LMC at any time and thank you to those that have been in touch since the last newsletter. We rely on you to know where support is needed and are grateful for your queries. Please do reach out to an LMC member or Amy. We are keen to hear from our local GPs and practice teams about any issues you are facing. We are here to represent your views. Please feel free to contact Amy Honor.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr Chaand Nagpaul

Chair
Harrow LMC

Londonwide LMCs NWL team

Amy Honor – Committee Liaison Executive, amy.honor@lmc.org.uk
Dr Asiya Yunus – LMC Secretary/Medical Director
Jamie Wright – Director of Primary Care
Lesley Williams – Assistant Director of Primary Care

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