The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• Locum and sessional GP update
• Media coverage – General Practice in Cornwall on brink of a crisis
• Abuse means...campaign resources
• Dealing with abuse of practice staff on social media from patients
• Implementation of the National Medical Examiner system in Cornwall
• Personal Independence Payments
• Prescribing and monitoring hormone therapy for gender dysphoria
• Gender Identity Service Transformation Workshop
• ADHD self report scale and patient handout combined
• Flu update
• Financial support for the IGMP
• Plea for Cornwall weighting for workforce funding
• Staff Training Programme 2022
• Staff Admin Training Courses for the rest of 2021
• Free financial and accountancy advice
• Free seminar on pensions for sessional GPs
• Free remote legal surgery sessions
• LMC website
• LMC role in Integrated care systems
• Clinical trials in Cornwall
• Excellence in Practice
• Green update
• GPC to resume meetings with NHSEI
• Blood bottle shortages 
• Oximetry @home scheme funding
• Covid-19 Phase 3 and booster vaccinations
• Regulatory changes on pay transparency
• GP clinical educator pay scales
• Practice Managers denied access to the New to Partnership Scheme
• Cameron Fund update

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• Meet your new LMC Chair
• Ultrasound reports
• Blood bottle shortage
• GP Payments and Pensions system update
• Coroner reports
• Cancard advice
• Patients registered as a Temporary Resident in general practice
• Psychiatry UK – interim advice to GP practices
• e-Consult and GP practice websites
• LMC survey on financial support for the Institute of General Practice Management (IGPM)
• Staff Training Programme 2022
• Staff Admin Training Courses for the rest of 2021
• Final chance to register for free 1-1 remote legal surgery session
• Free financial and accountancy advice
• GP flu survey – helping to plan for flu season 2021/22
• Local Pharmaceutical Committee update 
• GP mentoring opportunity
• New to Practice Fellowships for GPs and Practice Nurses – registration for October cohort
• Primary Care Networks – plans for 2021/22 and 2022/23
• Appraisal payments 
• CQC regulatory approach for general practice
• New NHS Cervical Screening Management System
• Supporting people to attend cervical screening
• New antenatal guidance
• Children and young people with severe complex needs
• Publication of ME/CFS guideline paused
• Records Management Code of Practice 2021 
• BMA launches public campaign backing general practice
• GP survey to inform national negotiating and lobbying
• Sessional GPs webinar – contracts 
• Care home workers wanting Covid-19 vaccination exemption letters
• Covid passports and patient name changes
• Covid-19 pandemic recovery workload prioritisation guidance 
• Updated PHE guidance on NHS staff self-isolation and return to work following Covid-19 contact 

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• PAG – what is it?
• Late payments to GP practices 
• Women’s health update
• Keeping the Peace (or not)
• General Practice Data for Planning and Research Programme deferred
• Physical health monitoring for adult eating disorders
• Special Allocation Scheme latest
• Minor eye conditions
• Data Protection Officer reminder
• Top tips to make your GP practice more sustainable
• IGPM winter planning support
• General Practice Enhanced Service Specifications for the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme 2021/22
• Flu vaccination explained
• Withdrawal of Covid SOP for general practice
• DVLA – fitness to drive
• New guidance on CQC’s monitoring approach 
• Exploring issues faced by general practice services led by GPs from an ethnic minority background 
• CQC recognition for the IGPM
• Reminder – transfer of electronic patient records from English to Welsh GP practices
• Guidance on the rollout of the medical examiner system into non-acute settings
• Early cancer diagnosis
• Abuse is not in a day’s work
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021
• NHS patients, staff and visitors must continue to wear face coverings in healthcare settings
• Staff isolation approach following updated Government guidance
• Local and national vaccination booking systems joined up
• Extension of the Medicines Delivery Service during the Covid-19 pandemic
• New enquiry service about Covid-19 vaccination records
• Pay announcement creates funding gap for GPs
• GP appointments up 31% compared with pre-pandemic levels 
• 2021 GP Patient Survey results
• Women at the heart of general practice’ online exhibition

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• Who moved my cheese?

• Update to GP Contract Arrangements 2021/22

• Post Covid – the spiky beast 

• Local IGPM representatives

• New PCSE pay and pension system update 

• LMC staffing changes and contact details

• Pregnancy Advisory Service – RCHT

• Delay in rollout of patient data sharing programme (GPDPR)

• Practice Managers: Join the Practice Manager Advisory Team

• Spirometry  

• CQC statement on developing its regulating and monitoring approach

• NHS Resolution’s Primary Care Appeals service

• Annual complaints collection (K041b form) to resume on 9 August

• QOF 2021/22: Quality Improvement Templates

• Issues affecting dispensing practices highlighted nationally

• Extension of the Covid-19 pandemic regulations

• JCVI and NHSEI guidance on Covid-19 booster vaccine programme

• Covid-19 vaccination programme – 15-minute observation period (Pfizer)

• Alternative point of care systems available

• Demonstrating Covid-19 vaccination status with NHS Covid Pass

• FAQs to support general practice and students in higher education institutions 

• PCN handbook

• Locum doctors in the NHS: understanding and improving the quality and safety of care 

• Freedom to speak up

• Pension guidance for retired doctors – reminder

• Enhanced shared parental leave system for salaried GPs

• Climate change

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• LMC UK Conference review
• Transgender patients
• Printed records for PCSE
• Payment for general practice child safeguarding reports
• Places still available for free 1-1 remote legal surgery sessions
• Art of Brilliance ‘Rising Stronger’ workshop: Thursday, 8 July, 2021 – save the date
• Staff Training – Addition to the Programme
• Secondary care pathology requests in ICE
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Pharmaceutical Committee update
• Coding issue with the 6in1 Hexavalent vaccine
• GP leaders deliver damning vote of no confidence in NHSE chiefs over failure to support general practice 
• GP workforce is not growing quickly enough to cope with current or future demand, GPC warns 
• Primary care flexible GP pools
• New roles in primary care toolkit 
• ‘Levelling up’ general practice in England
• Online Consultations – Contractual Requirements 
• Updated CQC guidance 
• Ensuring Maximum QOF Success 2021-22: Practice Index Webinar Recording
• Extension to the shingles immunisation programme  
• More national recognition for Practice Managers
• Institute of General Practice Management Anti-Abuse Campaign and survey 
• GP Data Planning and Research (GPDRP) - Data Provision Notice
• Covid vaccine status – public messaging for GP practices
• Coronavirus – Got Symptoms? Do not enter this building 
• GP practice clinical systems and misuse of controlled medicines
• IR35 – the changes, their effect and considerations for locums
• Microsoft N365 licences will be allocated for Locum GPs  
• Declaring a climate emergency in primary care

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• How the LMC can help you
• Free 1-1 remote legal surgery sessions
• Primary care funding streams
• EMIS Web issues escalated nationally
• Art of Brilliance ‘Rising Stronger’ workshop, Thursday, 8 July, 2021 – save the date
• Important information for non-medical referrers – ICE Radiology Requests
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and monitoring deaths
• GP practices wanted for cancer research
• Staff bank needs admin and reception staff
• Tamoxifen for the prophylactic management of breast cancer risk
• Cow’s milk protein allergy and allergic rhino-conjunctivitis
• DS1500 service – faster benefits payments for end-of-life care
• DWP Forms
• Updated guidance for HGV medicals
• Updated CQC guidance
• Maternal mental health
• PCV Hib MenC and Childhood 6 in 1 data collection for payment
• Lloyd George Digitisation update
• Delayed applications to New to practice partnership scheme
• General Practice Improvement Leads Programme 2021/2022
• Training during the pandemic – GMC urges doctors to make their voices count
• 2019/20 Pensions annual allowance charge compensation policy: New second application window for GPs
• Call for swift action to remove the General Medical Council's (GMC) power to appeal tribunal decisions
• Flu vaccination 20/21 achievement and plans for 2021/22
• Improving general practice appointment data webinars and demos
• Data quality guidance for SystmOne users
• Recruiting advanced practitioners through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
• Mental health support service for healthcare staff
• Covid Vaccination Enhanced Service – General Practice
• Unused IT equipment in vaccination centres
• Vaccine certificates
• Patients preparing for travel in the UK
• Vaccinations for the UK armed forces
• Salaried GP Covid-19 vaccination shifts
• ‘Proceed with caution’ on mass testing – BMA voices concern about accuracy of results
• Structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation
• Changes you need to make before the Live Care Identity Service moves to the Cloud
• Practice Manager Salary Survey results
• National minimum wage and national living wage update
• Updated IR35 rules from April
• Race report BMA response
• Report: Legislating on the future of health and care in England
• Listening and building trust – new National Data Health Guardian

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• Pastoral support: Help needed but not asked for may be a tragedy whilst a simple enquiry wastes no-one’s time
• Primary Care Funding streams
• New priority phone number for GPs to speak to RCHT consultants
• Eating Disorder Service – LMC survey
• Art of Brilliance ‘Rising Stronger’ workshop, Thursday, 8 July, 2021 – save the date
• Help signpost locums to the LMC
• Practice contact details for the LMC
• Not site-specific cancer update
• CHIS parent survey
• Safeguarding information for GPs
• Radiology requesting in the Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE)
• Cyber high severity alerts
• Covid Oximetry@home and care home digital health monitoring service outcomes
• Extension to the temporary changes to the GP Contract under the pandemic regulations
• Covid-19 vaccination enhanced service
• Updated PGDs for Covid-19 vaccines
• SMS messaging trial for Covid-19 vaccinations
• Viewing Covid-19 vaccination status on the GP record
• Covid vaccination history now in Summary Care Record 1-click system
• Patients ordering PCR tests without symptoms
• Proof of Covid-19 vaccine for travel purposes
• Covid-19 vaccines and pregnancy
• GP access during Covid-19
• Decisions about living and dying well during Covid-19 – CQC report
• RCGP calls on CQC to address impact of inspections on BAME GPs
• Updated CQC myth-busters
• Remote fit notes – please remember to sign them
• School absence note requests
• Guidance for QOF payments
• Update on Quality Outcomes Framework changes for 2021/22
• General Medical Services (GMS) Ready Reckoner 2021/22
• DES directions and flu immunisations
• Update on vaccination and immunisation changes for 2021/22
• Delivering preconception care to women with serious mental illness
• Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Campaign
• Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service and improving general practice appointment data
• VAT removal for primary care
• Primary Care Network Dashboard
• New remote working toolkit for GP practices and PCNs
• Best practice in social prescribing
• NHS community pharmacist consultation service
• Home delivery of medicines and appliances
• New national PM representative body agrees strategic aims
• Help patients manage their referral online
• New NHS Complaint Standards
• Updated Freedom to Speak Up guidance
• Health and Social Care White Paper explained
• A future in general practice? Medical applicant GP experience and career aspirations
• Investment in General Practice in England, 2015/16 to 2019/20
• Webinar on pensions for sessional GPs
• Locum GPs – new financial support by Government
• NHS mail for sessional GPs

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• Optimism after Ground Hog Day
• Kernow LMC motions for the UK LMC Conference
• Appraisal update
• Peninsula Cancer Alliance scheme to improve skin cancer referrals
• LMC Staff Training Programme 2021
• Pathway Transformation Funding opportunities 
• New to Practice Fellowship Programme – Cohort 2
• Radiology requesting in the Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE)
• Needle stick injury support for primary care in the South West
• Minor Eye Conditions Service 
• Vitamin D and care homes guidance
• Additional funding for vaccinating housebound patients 
• Second doses    
• Covid-19 vaccination programme – Cohort 6
• Alternative point of care systems available  
• Vaccination record query helpdesk   
• Freeing up practices to support Covid vaccinations  
• Covid-19 Clinical Risk Assessment Tool (QCovid) 
• Updated BMA Covid risk assessment tool 
• Vaccine information – resources in community languages 
• Thank you to everyone involved in the Covid-19 vaccination programme – GPC letter
• Protection for healthcare workers 
• Staff with long Covid
• New Digital Technology Assessment Criteria
• Presentation slides from the GP Contract webinars
• Reporting collections to ensure payments  
• 2021/22 influenza season – vaccine reimbursement and ordering 
• New to Partnership Payment Scheme  
• Changes to the NHS Pension Scheme regulations 
• Find out how to join new representative body for PMs 
• Improvements to the advice function on NHS e-Referral service makes referring easier
• Updated GMC guidance on prescribing
• Dispensing Services Quality Scheme – end of year arrangements
• Social prescribing link worker extension to recruitment support  
• Network Contract DES: Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme claims
• PCN Business Manager Workshop – 11 March from 1:30-4:30pm 
• Reducing health inequalities in PCNs 
• Daily Telegraph Learning Disability numbers: FOI
• New CQC myth-busters
• NHSPS service charges dispute
• Primary care guidance updated ICO healthcare audits

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• New negotiations process
• The Covid oximetry service, virtual care home support and launch of covid virtual ward
• Pulse oximetry guidance update 
• Launch of Non Site Specific cancer pathways
• Supporting children’s and young people’s mental health during Covid
• Secondary care use of the Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) GP Ordercomms
• Radiology requesting in ICE has started
• LMC staff training programme 2021
• FOIs
• Cornwall and Isle of Scilly LPC update
• LMC website access for GP returners helping with Covid vaccinations
• Allergy update – including management of anaphylaxis
• Vaccination of healthcare workers 
• Covid-19 vaccination wastage
• Legal advice note commissioned by GPDF on Covid-19 vaccination programme
• Change in legislation allows any GMC registered doctor to administer the Covid vaccine in primary care settings
• New Post-Covid-19 syndrome pathway
• MDU Charging extra for CVP sessions
• Covid-19 PPE scheme extended until June 2021 
• Update on the CQC’s regulatory approach 
• Covid-19 Workload Prioritisation Unified Guidance
• Communicating with people with a learning disability and autism, dementia and mental health needs 
• Pre-registration for offenders leaving prison 
• Covid-19 waste management                         
• Fit notes (med 3) 
• GP contract agreement 2021/2022 
• Outcome of the national PCN DES ballot  
• Domestic abuse letters 
• Recording of ethnicity information 
• Access to national workforce supply routes for PCNs
• Allied Health Professional Implementation Guidance 
• PCN Clinical Director support payments
• Enhanced health in care homes
• NHS e-Referral Service: new functionality to convert an advice and guidance request to a referral
• NHSEI legislative proposals on Integrated Care Systems
• Latest on new national representation for PMs  
• CQC myth-busters
• Pensions – new type 2 form deadline reminder for locums
• Payments during suspension
• Appointments in general practice

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:

• Reflections on a horrible annus
• LMC position on the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccination
• Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCDs): Preparedness for Scrutiny of Community Deaths by the Medical Examiner System
• Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) update
• Locum and Sessional Doctors’ latest
• Child Health Information Service Information Sharing Agreement
• The legal status of referral versus advice and guidance
• Gender dysphoria
• Women’s health update
• Surgery cleaning companies
• Covid-19 End of Life guidance update
• Start of Covid-19 vaccination rollout in Cornwall
• BMA supports third national lockdown as doctors compare working in the NHS to being in a warzone
• Questions about Patient Specific Directions (PSD) and Patient Group Directions (PGD)
• Staffing support to deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to care home residents and staff 
• Care home vaccinations
• EMIS practices – enabling autocoding of incoming Covid-19 vaccination notifications via Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Digital Medicine messages
• Covid-19 Response Levels Workload prioritisation for primary care
• New data on number of Covid-19 vaccinations
• Management of the long-term effects of Covid-19
• Access service arrangements: IAGP and EH
• Post payment verification for DHSC flu vaccination 
• DWP Medical (factual) reports: A guide to completion
• Signpost patients quickly with NHS Service Finder
• Guidance to support care homes to order medications through proxy access
• Important changes to the Caldicott Principles
• BMA calls for urgent action as report shows women doctors still being paid less than their male colleagues
• The next steps towards integrated care 
• Cameron Fund update