Safe patient care; how are we supporting you in your practice?

Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, our Deputy CEO, explains how our new resources help with focusing on patient care and staff wellbeing.

Updated measles documents

NHS England have updated the MMR vaccine invite information and UKHSA has produced a letter to clinicians working with immunosuppressed people.

Workforce survey thank you

Our latest workforce survey officially closed on Tuesday 18 June, with responses coming from 248 practices, around a fifth of the 1,121 we represent.

QOF childhood vaccination and immunisations achievement

This data will quantify the financial impact on practices of the decision to omit patient choice exception reporting from the indicators for the 2023/24 QOF contract. We are collecting responses until the end of June.

Media and public affairs round-up

On 18 June Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, our Deputy CEO, was quoted in a GPOnline article covering the launch of our safety resources. On 4 June our CEO, Dr Michelle Drage, responded to the cyber-attack on pathology services and was quoted in Pulse, GPOnline, the BMJ, the HSJ and the HSJ’s London Eye newsletter. On 24 May, Dr Drage’s comment on the stabbing of a GP in Sidcup was covered in Pulse, GPOnline and the BMJ. On 23 May, GPOnline covered Dr Harrod-Rothwell speaking at UK LMC Conference about the need for better ambulance response times when called to GP practices.

A number of our LMCs also signed the Rebuild General Practice campaign’s open letter to patients.

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