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Our new video explains how patients and GPs want the same things, but outside pressures get in the way.

Our video explains to patients the best options for getting care, including self-care and pharmacies.

This guidance relates to requests made by a family member, friend, partner etc for a copy of a deceased patient's medical record or part of it.

Amending medical records must be done carefully, with consideration for how a patient and/or regulator may view a GP's decision to do so.

It is common to be asked to complete medical reports or assessments for our patients, any GPs look after patients in care homes with dementia and may be familiar with DoLS assessments.

This guidance applies whether you are appointing GPs as partners, or in a salaried, sessional or locum capacity. Even if you have employed a GP through a locum agency, it is your responsibility to ensure that the agency has carried out all the necessary checks and has provided you with the relevant evidence the GP […]

When records might need to be amended There are reasons why a patient’s medical record may need amending. There are reasons why a patient’s medical record may need amending. The information is wrong. The patient is requesting certain details in the record to be removed. There is a difference between the ‘facts’ and ‘opinions’. Retrospectively […]

Our A4 posters are for displaying to patients, providing statistics on increasing appointments being offered by local GPs and the challenges they face with a shrinking workforce.

Our video is for displaying to patients either via practice screens or websites, providing statistics on increasing appointments being offered by GP practices across London and the challenges they face with a shrinking workforce.

Recently qualified LMC members give their advice to GPs joining the profession after qualifying in August.