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28 February pension deadlines

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Londonwide Diary

February

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February 2025

The inaugural awards event in Parliament was a huge success. Congratulation to all the individuals and teams from across London who were recognised, and thanks to everyone who nominated or came along to help celebrate.

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The move follows critical scrutiny by two parliamentary committees and coincides with reforms to merge some NHSE and DHSC functions.

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Practices need to submit their GP end of year pension forms for 2023-24 and their 2024/25 pension estimates by Friday.

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Series 4, 5 and 6 smartcards will stop working at the end of March, practices will need to order replacements and ensure they have up-to-date software on their computers.

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The change aligns maternity leave provisions with those of hospital doctors and ensures salaried GPs are treated equitably with hospital-based colleagues.

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Safe working pack

Your quick reference guide to useful resources to help manage your workload and avoid unsafe situations for both practitioners and patients.

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Post and browse vacancies for free, covering all roles working in London practices.

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•	PCSE newsletter
•	Flu programme 2025-26
•	NHS Standard Contract draft 2025/26 technical guidance
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•	Government guidance on software and AI as medical devices

28	Pension submission deadlines

02	BMA Collective Action Tracker survey ends
13	End of tax year planning: make the most of your allowances
26	Medical chaperoning
31	Older smartcards expire

On 18 February the Labour MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill met LMC representatives at Grafton Square Surgery.

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Join the Londonwide LMCs team to represent and support general practice across an ICS area.

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New Ipsos polling for the King’s Fund, National Voices and Healthwatch England has explored people’s experiences of NHS admin, and the impact of that on their views of the NHS.

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Get in touch to take part in our website usability testing to help us understand how we can improve it.

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On 12 February Pulse covered LMC concerns over unallocated access funding for the 2024/25 year in North West London, quoting Dr Sukhpal Shergill, our Medical Director for NWL. Our awards event on 6 February was attended by the BBC and other journalists and covered in Pulse, GPonline and the Jewish Chronical.

We continue to be very active promoting the interests of London GPs and practice staff on Bluesky, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn . If you have an example of general practice doing something well which could make a news story please get in touch. We also support practices that are approached with media requests. You can find details here.

The Buying Group is available to all London practices and gives access to discounts on
a wide range of goods and services from Miab, MidMeds, Practice Index and Surgery Connect.
Contact buyinggroup@lmc.org.uk or visit the Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group webpage for further information.

Got a story? Email us at comms@lmc.org.uk. Deadline for next month's submissions is Wednesday 12 March.	Download guidance and resources from our website.