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November 2023 Newsletter

Check your inbox for our latest workforce survey

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Our latest workforce survey invite landed yesterday. With growing pressures on practices it is more important than ever to have evidence of the challenges you face.

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New Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

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Rt Hon Victoria Atkins MP took up the post last week, with Rt Hon Dame Andrea Leadsom becoming a Minister. Dame Andrea is expected to take the primary care brief.  
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Cloud telephony deadline

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Practices who do not already have a cloud-based system have until 15 December to sign a contract for one in order to access funding.
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Patient records access is live

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Our updated guidance covers template text for explaining access to patients, Docman letters not showing in the NHS App and doing a data protection impact assessment.  
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Electronic practice self-declaration

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This year’s eDec has two questions relating to individual NHS earnings over £156,000 which should be answered with reference to the BMA’s new guidance.  
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Resource of the Month

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PMS practices may wish to switch since the equalisation of overall funding between PMS and GMS.
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Guidance Updates

GPC newsletter
NHS or non-NHS body guidance
Patient access videos
PCSE newsletter
UKHSA cold weather plan
Veteran friendly toolkit
SEL pathology update

Londonwide Diary

November

23 Conference of England LMCs day one
24 Conference of England LMCs day two
29 General Practice Alert State lunch and learn

December

1 eDEC deadline
11 Workforce survey closes
15 Digital telephony funding deadline
15 Next Gen GP deadline
19 Learning disability training in primary care
24 Holiday cover provision

 

Londonwide LMCs’ media comment on the Autumn Statement

Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, our Deputy CEO, said the Government’s funding announcement offered nothing new to address the fact a declining number of GPs are providing record numbers of appointments.

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Rebuild General Practice roadshow

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LMC members from across London met at our offices last week for a briefing from the Rebuild GP team, covering patient, media and political engagement.

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General Practice Alert State

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Hear first-hand from a participating practice manager on how this simple system provides compelling statistical evidence of the pressures on general practice.

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

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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

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On 21 November, Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, our Deputy CEO, was quoted in a GPOnline piece on worsening GP to patient ratios. Lisa was also quoted in an accompanying data piece.

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.

 
Got a story? Email us at comms@lmc.org.uk.
Deadline for next month's submissions is Wednesday 15 November.
Download your resources from our GP State of Emergency website.

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