Hounslow LMC newsletter – August 2026

Dear colleague,

This is the second Hounslow LMC newsletter of the year. Your elected LMC members, for the period 2025-2028, are listed below:

Our committee:

• Dr Alex Gorrie – Chiswick Medical Practice
• Dr Kapil Kotecha – St David’s Practice
• Dr Parmod Luthra – Spring Grove Medical Practice
• Dr Mohammed Muzafer – Hatton Medical Practice
• Dr Gurcharan Salotera – Little Park Surgery
• Dr Raj Singh – Clifford Road Surgery
• Dr Navinchandra Thakrar – Holly Road Medical Centre

Hounslow LMC membership and contact info

What is the LMC and what do we do?

The Local Medical Committee (LMC) works on your behalf to represent the interest of all GPs in Hounslow. We are here for partners, salaried GPs, locums and all practice staff. We also have VTS and practice manager reps on the LMC and are supported by staff from Londonwide LMC.  If you have a difficult work-related issue then our GP support team may be able to help – they can be contacted at GPSupport@lmc.org.uk.

Hounslow LMC

I am Dr Kapil Kotecha, the Chair of the Hounslow LMC and I work with my LMC colleagues, including the Vice Chair Dr Gurcharan Salotera, to ensure that the voice of general practice and GPs are heard.

What has Hounslow LMC been working on recently?

• FP69 List Cleansing. Changes implemented in October 2025 means that practices now have three months instead of six to respond to an FP69 flag applied by PCSE. If practices have not responded within this period, they are removed from practices. KCW’s diverse, highly mobile population makes it particularly vulnerable to erroneous de-registrations. The LMC covers specialist practices with homeless and student populations that are particularly impacted by the process due to the targeted population groups. We are engaging with local, regional and national representatives and have written to Ben Coleman MP in his capacity as a member of the Health Select Committee to highlight the extent of the impact on local practices. Please contact us to let us know of any significant concerns for your individual practices to add to our evidence. Further Londonwide LMC list validation guidance is here.
• Sessional GPs. Sessional GPs are central to the work of the LMC. The LMC recommends that practices pay Sessional GPs that include uplifts, which are recommended and funded, via the DDRB pay review process. As one profession, Sessional GPs form a vital part of the general practice ecosystem and it is only if those GPs receive fair remuneration can a stable Sessional GP workforce exist, which gives vital support and flexibility to partners and salaried GPs.
• Enhanced Services: Hounslow LMC members have fed back concerns as part of LLMC representation regarding the viability of delivering the CRM contract and the potential financial impact on practices in the borough if targets are not achieved. We will be feeding back outcomes of these discussions in due course.
• NWL Primary Care Provider Collaborative (PCPC). With the merger of the NWL and NCL ICBs to form WNL ICB and the new ICB becoming a commissioning body, a PCPC has been established in the old NWL Boroughs (an NCL PCPC already existed). The new body has now been incorporated, covering 7 of the 8 Boroughs (including Hounslow Borough). As time goes on the new NWL PCPC is likely to take on functions previously undertaken by the ICB.

New PCSE list cleanse approach causing practice stability concerns

In October 2025 PCSE changed from giving practices six months to confirm that patients with an FP69 flag were still living nearby and wished to remain on their list, to only three months. Londonwide LMCs have produced guidance for practices, including resources to communicate with patients and a form for practices to report how they are being affected. They are also escalating the problem to NHS leaders, media, politicians and others in positions of influence, including securing national media coverage in The Independent using examples from LMC members’ practices, followed by holding a briefing for MPs at the start of August,

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Resources available

🌊 GP Survival Guide
📝 Initial response to 2026/27 GP contract details
🤝 Shared care pathways
💼 Jobs board
🎓 Events and training

LMC Engagement – What’s the best way to contact you?

Hounslow LMC is currently looking at how it engages with our colleagues in general practice across the Borough 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):

• Social media
• Local Practice visits
• Attending meetings/events
• Clinical group meetings
• PCN CD meetings
• PM forums
• Email alerts

In addition to the above we would be grateful if you could let us know how regularly you wish to be updated, we are keen to keep you as up to date as possible with the work that the LMC is carrying out on your behalf but not overburden you. If you want to provide feedback regarding the above questions, please contact Ian Oakley.

Well done to the prize draw winners from our Buying Group survey

Thank you to everyone that took part in our Buying Group survey, we plan to run another one in the autumn. The randomly selected winners of the gift vouchers were:

• Trudy Do, Havergal Surgery
• Karen Tobin, The Bromley Common Practice
• Anca Radulescu, St. Margarets Medical Practice
• Marian Negoita, Amersham Vale Practice
• Aparna Pal, Jubilee Garden Medical Centre

Our Buying Group suppliers are:

• Hillcroft Surgery Supplies – Get next day delivery and industry leading stock availability, thanks to their investment in substantial warehouse facilities.
• Practice Index – Pick and choose what you need out of their learning platform, or software to manage HR, finance, compliance and rotas.
• Hippo Labs – Have your call-and-recall work smarter, reach more patients and improve QOF attainment. Hippo Labs automatically customises many types of message.
• Equity Energies – Reduce energy costs, save time, become greener and remove the administrative burden of managing utilities by having experts do it all for you.
• Surgery Connect – Automates more tasks within your phone system, integrates with clinical records and seamlessly bridges in and out-of-hours.
• MIAB – You existing policies may have more gaps than you think, particularly in developing areas like cyber and ARRS employment. Rely on MIAB’s specialist expertise to ensure you are fully covered.
• Restore Information Management – Whether it you need a room full of records doing or a steady flow of new registrations, Restore take the hassle out of digitising patient records.
• Tickets for Good – Reward yourself and your colleagues with free and discounted tickets to concerts, theatre shows, sports and more!

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Get in touch!

All constituents can raise any issues of concern with the LMC at any time. It would be great to hear from constituents on any feedback or issue you may have from operational concerns with NWL Enhanced Services Single Offer. Please feel free to contact ian.oakley@lmc.org.uk and he will take up your issue.

Thank you for those of you who contact Hounslow LMC committee members about issues as they arise. We rely on you to know where support is needed and are grateful for your queries. Please do reach out to LMC members or Ian. 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.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr Kapil Kotecha, Chair – Hounslow LMC

Londonwide’s NWL LMC Team

• Ian Oakley, Committee Liaison Executive, ian.oakley@lmc.org.uk
• Dr Hannah Theordorou, LMC Secretary/Medical Director
• Jamie Wright, Director of Primary Care
• Lesley Williams, Assistant Director of Primary Care