Dear colleague,
This is our second newsletter of 2026. Your elected LMC representatives for the period 2025-2028 are:
Our committee:
Westminster LMC
- Dr Melinda Crème, Paddington Green Health Centre
- Dr Francesca Flohr, Millbank Medical Centre
- Dr Paul O’Reilly, KCW Chair
- Dr Kevin Patel, Marylebone Health Centre
- Dr Neveen Rady , Compton Medical Centre
- Dr Hina Shahid, Half Penny Steps Health Centre
- Dr Harry Wyatt, Marylebone Health Centre
Kensington and Chelsea LMC
- Dr Krishan Aggarwal, KCW Vice Chair
- Dr Tatjana Djordjevic, North Kensington Medical Centre
- Dr Alisha Khanna, Abingdon Medical Practice
- Dr Anissa Patel, Holland Park Surgery
- Dr Yasmin Razak, Golborne Medical Centre
- Dr William Squier, Knightsbridge Medical Centre
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 KCW. We are here for partners, salaried GPs, locums and all practice staff. Londonwide LMCs also has a dedicated GP Support team to support individual GPs and practices with practice-specific issues- they can be contacted at GPSupport@lmc.org.uk. Key information on the full range of services we offer for practices in London is available here.
Chair and Vice Chair
I am Dr Paul O’Reilly, the new Chair of the KCW LMC and my colleague Dr Krishan Aggarwal is the Vice Chair. We cover both Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea Boroughs and represent all GPs and practices in those Boroughs.
What has KCW LMC been working on recently?
- The KCW LMC recently carried out constituency engagement, led by Dr Neveen Rady. On the 11th June Dr Rady visited 4 practices in Regent’s Health PCN, to discuss the work of the KCW LMC and the services offered by Londonwide LMC. If you would like a member of the LMC to visit your practice, please contact us on the e mail below.
- FP-69 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 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 LLMC list validation guidance is here.
GP support and CQC visits. Londonwide LMC, due to its size, has a dedicated team for supporting individual practices called GP support. One of the issues they can support practices with is CQC visits, as they have experience from across London. If your practice has a CQC inspection and requires support, please let us know and we can put you in touch with GP support.
At NWL ICB and National level
- Enhanced Services: KCW 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 both of KCW LMC Boroughs). As time goes on the new NWL PCPC is likely to take on functions previously undertaken by the ICB.
LMC Engagement – What’s the best way to contact you?
KCW LMC is currently looking at how it engages with our colleagues in general practice across the two Boroughs, 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
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 Ian Oakley.
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.
Surviving the 2026-27 GP contract – webinar recording
A recording of the first run of Londonwide LMCs’ webinar is now available on the 2026-27 GP contract guidance page for those people who were unable to attend either session.
You can find out about the effect on London of the contract changes, with our unique patient population and commissioning arrangements, based on the documentation available at the end of April.
Resources available
🌊 GP Survival Guide
📝 Initial response to 2026/27 GP contract details
🤝 Shared care pathways
💼 Jobs board
🎓 Events and training
Tell us about your practice’s purchasing needs and win a £20 gift voucher
Our new survey on what you buy, and why you buy it, will help us improve our offer of goods, services and training. Five respondents will also win a £20 gift voucher. The survey covers several areas, you only need to fill out the ones relevant to you – we know how busy everyone working in general practice is!
- 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!
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 such as the NWL Enhanced Services Single Offer. Please feel free to contact ian.oakley@lmc.org.uk.
Thank you for those of you who contact 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 Paul O’Reilly
Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster LMC Chair
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