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What your local LMC and Londonwide LMCs does for you and your practice

A quick guide to how your LMC and Londonwide LMCs work for, and with, you to support individuals and practice teams. Both in your area and across London.

Your local LMC represents you and your practice day-to-day at borough level, and Londonwide LMCs strengthens and amplifies that voice across ICSs and London, whilst also providing services to support you, your colleagues and your practice.

Together, we provide your practice with strong, independent representation and practical support when you need it most. We also provide advocacy to protect the future of general practice in London. Londonwide LMCs is led by Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, CEO, and Dr Elliott Singer, Deputy CEO.

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We make sure your practice is heard at borough, ICS and London level on matters that are important to your practice and your daily work, such as:

  • Negotiating local contracts and performance frameworks, trying to make the targets achievable for practices and activity reflective of what most benefits patients.
  • Representing GP practices to commissioners who are responsible for local GMS/PMS/APMS contract management.
  • Making the case for the needs of general practice in local decision making, including service changes.
  • Feeding into digital transformation, information governance and data-sharing agreements, including advising practices and raising information
  • Working to resolve interface problems such as between primary and secondary care.
  • Feeding into premises strategy and estates decisions.
  • Being the GP voice as integrated neighbourhood working develops, along with other NHS reforms and system planning.
  • CQC policy and compliance expectations.

Individual GPs in difficulty, providing support and signposting such as:

  • Appraisal, revalidation, GMC and performers list issues.
  • Partnership disputes.
  • Complaints.

Practice support and advice, such as

  • Financial/performance concerns and digital compliance advice.
  • Premises disputes (NHSPS, CHP, landlords).

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  • Sustain – by supporting staff wellbeing, along with future environmental sustainability.

Information, guidance and tools, such as:

  • Safe-working templates.
  • Contractual information.
  • Information governance and compliance resources.
  • Business viability and governance tools.
  • CQC checklists and guides.

Training and support, such as:

  • Leadership and professional development.
  • Aspiring to partnership support.
  • Premises and CQC training.
  • Peer support via the Professional Support Platform.

We influence system policy, commissioning, public perception and political decisions to ensure general practice is understood, valued and supported. Including:

  • Regularly meeting with MPs, the Mayor’s Office,  Greater London Assembly members and local councillors.
  • Speaking to national, local and GP specialist media, giving the frontline GP perspective on topical issues.
  • Meeting leaders in hospital, community and mental health trusts to coordinate how they work with general practice and raise issues, such as un-resourced transfers of work.

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