Londonwide LMCs

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.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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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.

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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

•	GPC News
•	Sharing patient records with the Clinical Practice Research Datalink
•	DHSC NHS pensions consultation
•	PCSE news
•	Social Prescribing Link Worker welcome pack

Londonwide Diary

September
20	DHSC consultation on datapoints for evaluating online consulting closes
21	World Alzheimer’s Day
26	Owning your practice premises: the essentials
October
09	HR in general practice
10	World Mental Health Day
31	Sexual health workshop for practice nurses
November
07	Travel health update for practice nurses
21	Practice manager conference – what matters to you
21	Practice nurse networking event
	SAVE THE DATE Tuesday 10 March 2020 Londonwide LMCs’ Annual Conference

Covering sexual health in consultations

Kirsty 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.

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Also this month…

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.

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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.

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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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Remember to use BEAM to LMC to highlight the pressure you are under

Our BEAM to LMC mobile app, which enables you to tell us about the pressures you are under from commissioners and others, is proving popular. Make sure you check the app for push notifications.

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Media and public affairs round-up

On 11 September Dr Michelle Drage, our CEO, appeared on Sky News explaining how cuts to services mean GPs have fewer options when considering prescribing long-term medications. On 9 and 10 September Michelle was quoted in the BMJ and GPonline , respectively, speaking about the impact of further referral restrictions in North West London.

We continue to be very active in promoting the interests of London GPs and practice staff on 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 9 October.	Download your resources from our GP State of Emergency website.