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London General Practice Award Winners 5 Feb 2026
Londonwide LMC’s hosted our second London General Practice Awards in Parliament on February 5 2026, recognising the dedication and enterprise of our hard-working GPs and practice teams across the Capital.
The awards were sponsored by Londonwide LMCs Buying Group insurance provider MIAB.
Award winners included the following from NCL:
- Dr Oge Ilozue London LMC Member Award: North Central London – for demonstrating outstanding commitment to safe sustainable care and the future of general practice.
- Christina Beyer, Parliament Hill Medical Centre – commended for outstanding contribution to patient care and practice team collaboration.
Londonwide LMC guidance in focus
Vaccinations and Immunisations
From the 1 January 2026, all children will be offered the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine at 12 and 18 months. For further Londonwide guidance you can read more.
For further information, here are standalone links that you may find useful:
- Practices were invited to both national and regional webinars, including the UKHSA webinar on the new schedule (see recording).
- Updated resources, guidance and toolkits are available on the UKHSA immunisation collection.
- The UKHSA vaccination catch up calculator, referenced in recent NHSE/ICB communications, can be found at Childhood immunisation eligibility calculator.
- Practices can also find webinar summaries and GPs specific updates on the NCL General Practice Website.
- MMRV Programme GP Toolkit – Dr Daniel Subel, NCL Prevention and Vaccination Lead
The BMA has also provided guidance on health care support workers (HCSW) administering vaccinations. Clarification on what training and supervision should be in place, including the limits on what non-registered workers can do.
Read more here.
Shared Care
Your LMCs have been working closely with the ICB to rationalise shared care protocols and we hope that this update will be useful. For more information, see NHSE guidance.
- You can decline shared care if you feel that it isn’t safe, or will take time for which you are not fully resourced.
- Shared care cannot start until the GP explicitly agrees and should not be assumed if no response is received. Referral forms should not make the first appointment contingent on upfront agreement to share care. It is however poor practice to ignore a request for shared care. Respond promptly, whether or not you are happy to share care.
- NHSE guidance does not explicitly say that patients under shared care shouldn’t be discharged from specialist care. However, it does say that care must be available from the secondary care team without the need for a new referral and most trusts do not offer indefinite patient initiated follow-up, so in reality it is unlikely to be safe if the patient is discharged. Specifically for ADHD, NICE recommends an annual review by ‘a healthcare professional with training and expertise in managing ADHD’.
- Good communication is key – the likelihood that emails to the specialist team will get a prompt reply may inform a decision on whether or not to share care.
- The BMA does not recommend sharing care with private providers. If practices wish to do so, we suggest that it be decided on a case by case basis – an example practice policy is attached. This is not an official LMC document and has simply been provided by a local practice in case it is useful for others. The same principles may apply if contemplating sharing care with a Right To Choose company.
Your LMCs are here to support you. Please contact us on joni.wilson-kaye@lmc.org.uk if you have any questions.
NCL GP Alert Pathway
LMC members have been working closely with Shirena Counter (Senior Programme Manager, Elective Transformation) to input into the planned NCL GP Alert Pathway which, when finalised, will make it quick and easy for GPs to raise quality alerts via EMIS. Click here to view the presentation that Shirena gave to the NCL GP webinar on 12 February. We will bring you further information in our March newsletter.
NCL Mental Health Interface Updates
The LMCs have been inputting into the Memory Services plans to roll out a referral form. The service has taken on board feedback that referrals should not be rejected based on lack of investigations. Patients will remain under the clinic’s care with a named worker until end of life so will not need to be referred back into the service.
The form will be available on EMIS and will be automated, click here to view form. The form will also be available for secondary care trusts to make direct referrals into the service rather than passing back to the GP to be followed up.
Other discussions at the meeting included updates on:
- Single Point of Access for community mental health services – now available in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. Please note that the roll-out of the service in Camden and Islington has been deferred until the end of February.
- Crisis line service.
- ADHD.
North Central London LMCs Strategic Leadership Network (SLN)
At our SLN in January we met with colleagues to have a focused item on the development of neighbourhoods across NCL including how the model supports those patients who have complex health needs and living with long term conditions. The discussion also covered the complexities and issues created by the fact that neighbourhoods are not coterminous with PCN boundaries and registered and resident populations. In NCL approximately 30% of patients are registered with a practice that is in a different neighbourhood to the one they live in. We will be continuing these conversations going forwards so if you can concerns you would like to raise please do so with either one of your borough LMC reps or email joni.wilson-kaye@lmc.org.uk.
Other topics of focus at the SLN included:
- Commissioning intentions and plans for LCSs for 26/27.
- NCL/ NWL ICB merger.
- Interface issues, particularly in issues that arise on borough boundaries. We will be looking at ways in which we can work with colleagues in North East London to raise concerns relating to the Homerton Hospital. GP liaison emails:
- Royal Free – rf.gpliaison@nhs.net
- UCLH – uclh.gpqueries@nhs.net
- Whittington Health – whh-tr.gpqueries@nhs.net; gabriella.campbell@nhs.net
- Homerton – huh-tr.qualityandrisk@nhs.net
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The Londonwide LMC NCL Sector Team
You can find the details of your LMC Chairs across NCL here. If you have any specific concerns arising about this or any other issue, please contact us via joni.wilson-kaye@lmc.org.uk.
Best wishes,
The NCL Londonwide LMCs team:
Jamie Wright, Director Primary Care,
Vicky Weeks, Medical Director,
Joni Wilson-Kaye, Assistant Director Primary Care – joni.wilson-kaye@lmc.org.uk ,
Sarah Ocran, Committee Liaison Executive – sarah.ocran@lmc.org.uk