| September 2019 Newsletter |
New BMA manifesto |  | | ‘Caring, supportive, collaborative: a future vision for the NHS’ is a positive document, which enshrines a number of ideas and principles Londonwide LMCs’ has been advocating for some years. | |
Becoming more dementia friendly for World Alzheimer’s Day | Saturday is World Alzheimer’s Day. With 72,000 Londoners living with dementia, we explain what Londonwide LMCs is doing to become more dementia friendly, and how practices can get involved. | |
Organising your 2019 flu campaign | Jacqui Perfect, an experienced practice manager and member of our GP Support team, shares her top tips for the flu vaccination season. | |
‘No-deal’ EU exit planning | The Government has released some more information on the expected impact of a ‘no-deal’ exit from the EU. We continue to seek feedback from practices on any concerns they may have. |
Comments sought on CQC for parliamentary evidence session | The Parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee are planning to hold an evidence session with the CQC. We are considering submitting evidence, please give us any comments by 7 October. |
|  | Resource of the Month | Care Quality Commission (CQC) fit person interview guidance |
| Use our desktop resource to inform practice team members how to prepare for the CQC interview. |
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Guidance Updates |
Londonwide Diary |
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Covering sexual health in consultationsKirsty Armstrong is an advanced nurse practitioner in out of hours, primary and urgent care and a lecturer in primary and urgent care, along with leading our Sexual Health Update days. For Sexual Health Week, she shares her advice on how to raise sexual health in consultations and highlights some hot topics, including grooming and travel health. |  |
Trusts asking practices to identify overseas patients when referring |  | We are aware some practices are receiving messages from hospital trusts asking for assistance in identifying overseas patients at the point of referral, which is not part of the GP Contract. | |
New courses: owning your practice premises and cervical sample takers training |  | Following feedback from practices on their training needs, we are pleased to be able to offer two new training opportunities, including Owning your practice premises: the essentials running on 26 September. | |
Dr Nikki Kanani appointed Director of Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement |  | Congratulations to Bexley GP, Dr Nikki Kanani, on being permanently appointed to her NHSE/I role. | |
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