Londonwide LMCs

Dear colleague,

Your Local Medical Committee (LMC) works on your behalf to represent the interest of all GPs in Islington. We are here for partners, salaried GPs, locums and all practice staff.

Islington LMC Membership and Contact info

What has Islington LMC been working on recently?

Primary/secondary care interface
Attending the Clinical Interface meetings at UCLH (Dr Grant-Arrowsmith) and Whittington hospital (Dr Karen Summerfield) to challenge un-resourced workload shift from secondary care, and to also improve working in an integrated way with our secondary care colleagues. If you have any interface issues relating to UCLH and the Whittington Hospital, please let us know by contacting [email protected] so we can raise these issues on your behalf.

Mental health clinical interface group
Attending regular meetings with NCL LMC Chairs and mental health providers, to discuss and address the issues that NCL GPs are facing with accessing mental health services for their patients. I (Dr Emily Grant-Arrowsmith) attended the recent single point of access pilot for community mental health which started in Barnet on 1 April. To learn more about this initiative please visit here.

Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC), Locally Commissioned Services (LCSs) in Islington
Worked alongside Islington public health to undertake a comprehensive review which has resulted in significant increased payments for LARC 25-26 and with back pay to April 25 (payment details ) does everyone know?

Engagement with our local GPs and local ICB
Attending the Islington GP Forum and PCN CD meetings to hear about the challenges local GPs are facing on the ground and to feed that information back to inform the LMC’s work/priorities. We also attend the Borough Primary Care Transformation Steering Group and Islington Borough Partnership Meetings, to ensure the LMC voice is heard and considered, particularly in relation to current discussions and decisions regarding Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs).

Engaging with our local MPs to discuss local and national issues of concern to Islington practices
We (including an Islington Practice Manager) met recently with Jeremy Corbyn MP. The discussions focused on practice funding, particularly the impact of the employer’s NI increase on general practice, and estates issues relating to local practices which need to develop or move.

At NCL ICB level:

Protected learning time (PLT) – We lobbied (alongside the Chairs of our LMCs in NCL and our LW LMC colleagues) the ICB to ensure that funded PLT can be held at NCL practices, PCNs and at place level.

Locally Commissioned Services (LCSs) – We have been involved in work which has resulted in a recurrent uplift of 7.2% for all NCL Locally Commissioned Services (excluding the Long-Term Condition (LTC LCS) which will be back-dated to all LCSs from last year.

Primary/secondary care interface concerns – We wrote a letter to the ICB (alongside the Chairs of the NCL LMCs) to express our continuing concerns about inappropriate and un-resourced workload transfer from secondary to general practice. We requested that the ICB ensure that trusts implement actions within the NCL Consensus document and strengthen the quality alert system, or put in place meaningful measures to highlight patient safety issues arising from trust actions.

2025 LMC elections – nominate yourself now

This spring is your opportunity to stand for Islington LMC. Please watch our short animation explaining why should you stand for your local medical committee, which is part of our regularly updated elections page. You can also share the animation and a short message via WhatsApp.

If you would like to find out more about being a member we are running two lunchtime awareness sessions on either Wednesday 7 or 21 May 2025 you can register for these via [email protected].

Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, CEO, Londonwide LMCs says: “If you are the type of person who likes things to change when they are broken, if you don’t accept people saying “that’s just the way it is, we have to live with it”, and you want to make a difference to your colleagues and your patients, please stand for your LMC. You can raise and resolve all sorts of issues such as interface and pathways that are impacting on your ability to do your job.”

Nomination packs were sent out via email on Monday 28 April. If you do not receive regular emails from us, think your details need updating, or you know of any GPs who may not be receiving our updates, whether they are a partner, employed, locum, new entrant or a trainee GP, contact us on [email protected].

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: [email protected]

We want to hear from you

We are keen to hear from our local GPs and practice teams about any issues you are facing, so please reach out and tell us about any issues or queries, local borough as well as national by emailing [email protected].

Your current LMC members are:

Dr Emily Grant-Arrowsmith – Mildmay Medical Practice/Central 1 Islington PCN
Dr Masarat Jilani -The Village Practice/North Islington 1 PCN
Dr Devina Maru, Sessional GP
Dr Cindy Nonoo-Cohen – Archway Medical Centre/North Islington 1 PCN
Dr Fatima Shaik, Junction Medical Practice, (Site 2 Dartmouth Park Practice)/North 2 Islington PCN
Dr Karen Summerfield- St Peters Street Medical Practice/Central 2 Islington PCN
Dr De Jun Lao, (VTS representative) – Ritchie Street Practice/ South Islington PCN
Sherif Al-Marayati (Practice Manager Representative)-St John’s Way Medical Centre/North 1 Islington PCN
Lisa Smith (Practice Nurse Representative)-St Peters Street Medical Practice/Central 2 Islington PCN

Yours Faithfully,

Dr Karen Summerfield, Co-Chair, Islington LMC
Dr Emily Grant-Arrowsmith, Co-Chair, Islington LMC

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