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Seven trusts cease to accept paper referrals |  | | Seven London hospital trusts will stop accepting paper referrals in either June or July. This is part of the national rollout of hospitals only being paid for referrals that are received via eRS. | |
Download our ‘Beam to LMC’ app today | Our new app helps you to highlight the pressure you are under from commissioners and others by sharing unreasonable requests with us. | |
Londonwide LMCs’ annual conference round-up | On 2 May we hosted our annual conference – titled “London Calling” – at the Kia Oval, attended by almost 350 people. |
GDPR comes into effect on Friday | The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May. We have collated some of the most useful guidance published to date. |
LMC election nominations close on 1 June | If you would like to join your LMC, or continue as a member, you need to submit your election nomination form, with two named supporters, by 5:00pm on Friday 1 June. |
|  | Resource of the Month | Housing application guidance |
| Our GP State of Emergency guidance helps you to push back against inappropriate requests for letters in support of housing applications. |
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Acting as a supervisor for a doctor with conditionsThis month our GP support team poses a challenge: ask not what your LMC can do for you – ask what you can do for your professional colleagues. |  |
Londonwide LMCs’ workforce survey |  | Our latest workforce survey will be arriving in your inboxes on 6 June. The information we gather from the survey provides vital evidence in our work to represent you. | |
Medical Director vacancy |  | Due to a retirement, we are recruiting a Medical Director to join our GP Support team which covers GPs and their practice teams in all our LMC constituent areas. The role is part time (two days per week) and we have a flexible approach to accommodate different ways of working. | |
Thank you to those who responded to our data-validation exercise |  | A big thank you to all the practices who responded to the data validation exercise, which ran between January-March 2018. We asked practices to confirm the details of the GPs and practice team members who are working at their practice. | |
Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group adds new shredding service – sign up now! |  | A new shredding service has just been added to the Londonwide LMCs’ Buying Group offer. If you have not already done so, make sure you sign up to the Buying Group to take advantage of this and other offers. | |
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Last updated : 17 Oct 2018