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

• We have each other’s backs
• Think 111 – access to dental care
• LPC latest – Trial sites needed for the GP Community Pharmacist Consultation Service
• RCHT ICE GP Ordercomms Solution – pathology and clinical imaging
• PITCH update
• New national representation for Practice Managers
• PCSE issues
• LMC website
• Supplier relief for public health contracts
• Covid 19 and requests for fit notes
• The Covid-19 Vaccination Collaboration Agreement 
• Enhanced Service Specification: Covid-19 vaccination programme
• GPC guidance on the Covid-19 vaccination programme
• PHE publishes Covid-19 vaccine guidance
• Guidance for doctors who are isolating and those in vulnerable groups 
• ‘AndILookLike’ initiative
• Temporary approval to suspend the need for signatures on prescriptions
• PPE portal – update on Christmas orders and delivery 
• Management of the long-term effects of Covid-19
• Letter to CQC on supporting general practice during a period of unprecedented pressure 
• Tracker survey results 
• Use of the clinical frail scale during Covid-19
• ‘General practice is open’ campaign
• Guidance on when to use remote or face to face consultations
• QOF system suppliers update
• Updated Directed Enhanced Service Specification for flu 
• Flu vaccines for general practice staff
• Influenza immunisation call and recall error 
• TPP SystmOne and EMIS Web practices: electronic notifications for flu vaccinations from community pharmacies
• PCN development funding guidance
• Network Contract DES: Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme claim form update
• NHS Confed: PCN Network virtual conference session recordings
• Bone health card to help patients stay on osteoporosis medication 
• Support for GPs to deliver care to patients with hearing loss 
• Guidance on seatbelt exemption certificates issued by GPs
• Avoidable harm in Primary Care
• Lloyd George notes  
• Patient confidentiality
• Avoiding diagnosis delays in endometriosis
• CQC myth-busters
• Pathway to Partnership: New Partner Development Programme
• GPC roles
• Provision of Occupational Health for portfolio GPs
• GP Maternity/Parental leave webinar
• RNLI safety advice

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

‘Don’t panic, Mr Mainwaring!’

Tribute to Dawn Molenkamp

SERF form update

Community assessment and treatment unit (CATU) update

Rollout of the Patch Consultant Geriatricians across Cornwall and IoS

Payment for General Practice child safeguarding: a reminder

Performance Advisory Group (PAG) update

Staff training 2021

Wellbeing for Practice Managers – Virtual workshop

Taxi driver licences

CHIS update

New to Partnership Payment Scheme latest

GP Fellowship scheme webinar 

Referral Management

FIT test latest

Accessing additional flu vaccine supplies   

Additional adult flu vaccine stock

Flu vaccination public messaging 

Learning from Covid-19 outbreaks in general practice

Covid-19 Clinical Assessment Service (CCAS) update 

Covid-19 vaccination 

Covid-19 Test and Trace App while at work

Recording of deaths

NICE to develop a guideline on persistent effects of Long Covid on patients

GP premises survey: post Covid-19

Food help for vulnerable during Covid

CQC state of care annual report 

CQC myth-busters 

Update on CQC fees for 2021/2022

Complaints (KO41b form) data collection for 2019/20   

Freelance GP locums Forms, the ’10 week window’, and validating Form A 

Sessional GPs newsletter

Pensions newsletter 

Final Pay Controls

GMC publishes new consent guidance

Professional behaviours and communication principles for working across primary and secondary care

Help with PCN Directed Enhanced Service medicine reviews: polypharmacy comparators 

CVDPREVENT quality improvement

Resilience and wellbeing for GPs

Practice Manager podcast – Boosting morale in general practice

Building the future of general practice: Dr Martin Marshall’s RCGP Conference speech

New BMA GP Maternity Guide

Survey of GP trainees

Sustainable and environmentally friendly general practice  Cameron Fund Christmas Appeal

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

• Handbags at dawn and shuffled deckchairs but no one is clapping…

• Patients requesting routine antibody testing

• Covid-19 testing for local health staff

• Face masks in GP surgeries

• Covid-19: general practice during the second wave 

• NHS Test and Trace App

• New measures to support the development of safe Covid-19 vaccines

• New Covid-19 e-learning on recovery and rehabilitation

• New resources for CVD prevention and better respiratory care

• PPE Portal

• Technical specifications for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Covid-19 specific guidance published for doctor complaints

• Covid-19 Clinical Assessment Service (CCAS) update

• Order for NHS to share confidential patient data extended

• Locum GP Webinar

• Report from the Cameron Fund on the effect of Covid-19 on General Practice

• Waste management guidance for healthcare facilities updated

• Motions for potential national debate

• LMC initiated scheme to pass calls to OOH rolled out

• Full blood count mapping

• Meet the LMC’s pastoral support team

• Staff training workshops

• NHSE New to Practice Fellowship Programme

• NHSE Supporting Mentors Programme
  
• Developer contributions for primary care health services in Cornwall

• Updated seasonal influenza DES specification

• Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) guidelines for movement of flu vaccine

• Locum doctors and flu vaccine

• Flu vaccination guidance 2020

• Patient leaflet explaining possible flu vaccination delays

• Latest on appraisals

• Revised Network Contract DES material published

• Structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation

• Delivering the early diagnosis of cancer PCN specification

• Breast referral pathway survey

• Revised pathway for investigation of patients with symptoms which may be associated with colorectal cancer using FIT testing

• Trialling cancer risk assessment tools

• QOF at a glance

• Redacting GP records

• Template letter to private providers about screening

• GP pay and pensions system

• Facilities management service level agreements from NHSPS

• Survey of salaried GPs

• Annual Staff Salary Survey results

• Election of Chair of GPC England and GPC UK

• Latest jobs in local general practice

• Events calendar

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

• Flu update for 2020/2021: (hopefully) what you might like to know, all in one place

• Peer Improvement Tips for Care and Health (PITCH)

• Radiology sedation rebuttal letter

• CAMHS survey for GPs

• Examination of vulnerable people for safeguarding purposes

• GP Cancer Briefing

• Virtual Well-being Sessions for Practice Managers

• Covid-19 expenses

• Covid-19 fund for GP practices now available 

• Covid-19 response – supplementary materials for third phase implementation

• Reviewing children and young people on the shielded patients list

• Infection prevention and control guidance

• Bulletin from the Community Infection Prevention and Control Team for General Practice

• Section 88 of the Road Traffic Act 1988

• PCNs warned unspent additional roles funding may ‘be lost to general practice’

• GMS and PMS regulations changes from October 2020

• Estates planning support and guidance

• NHS Property Services legal action

• GP appraisal restart

• Registering patients prior to their release from the secure residential estate (detention)

• Cancer Research UK publish early diagnosis of cancer support guide 

• Best practice in handling complaints and claims 

• More accurate general practice appointment data

• Mentor Scheme

• NHSEI general practice fellowship guidance launched

• Healthcare education and training tariff: 2020 to 2021 

• Apprenticeship funding 

• Aspiring medics sign up for virtual GP work experience during Covid-19 crisis

• Lobbying over pay 

• Final pay controls

• Taking care of the carers in your GP practice workforce

• New GP practice profiles on the NHS website

• Redacting GP records

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data breaches

• ARM Elections

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

• A savage blow

• CAMHS waiting time recovery plan update

• SERF update 

• Evolution of PCNs

• Flu latest

• Gender reassignment

• The role and work of the LMC

• Child Health Information Service (CHIS) latest

• Practice Managers Learning Event cancelled/PM Conference update

• Latest NHS Kernow Highlight Report

• Guidance note for patients requesting exemption letters for wearing face masks

• Covid-19 certification for travelling abroad

• NHSEI third phase of NHS response to Covid-19

• Covid-19 – new infection control recommendations for primary health care providers

• Self-isolation of health and care workers from high-risk countries

• Shielding guidance for staff on returning to work

• Regional Covid-19 cases and triage figures published in new interactive dashboard

• New system alerts GPs to Covid-19 test results

• Update on GP services for 2020/21

• Workflow and workload issues

• Intimate clinical assessments undertaken remotely

• RCGP calls for less arduous regulation and more trust in general practice

• NHS Health Check: Restart Preparation

• National Data opt out – deadline reminder
  
• Transition between Covid-19 care home support and the Care Homes service in the PCN DES

• NHS Confederation report on PCNs

• New report on ‘Mental health and PCNs – Understanding the opportunities’

• Workforce Minimum Data Set

• SystmOne practices: new electronic notifications for the urgent supply of medicines

• Feedback on your interactions with CQC

• Childcare costs for doctors to be covered in drive to boost GP numbers

• New video gives advice on reducing administrative errors

• GP recruitment

• Third record-breaking year for GP trainee recruitment

• Apprenticeship funding

• Health and care video library available free to NHS

• Could you save money with the LMC Buying Group? 

• Fraudulent curriculum vitae

• Latest jobs in local general practice

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

• The new norm
• Annual England LMC Conference – request for motions
• CQC to restart routine inspections of lower-risk GP practices
• Pre-op isolation note for the patient and whole family
• Fit to fly requests
• Letter of exemption: wearing face masks in public settings
• Holiday season and temporary registration 
• BMA risk assessment guidance for practices
• Staff registration for antibody testing
• Implications for life insurance following antigen and antibody tests
• Calculating the impact of online and phone consultations on GP workload 
• Information governance guidance updated for Covid-19
• Appraisal update
• Single Electronic Referral Form (SERF) – Word version
• PCN workforce plans
• Annual Practice Staff Survey
• Nurse registration and insurance
• LMC database cleanse
• What is Cornwall Primary and Community Care Training Hub and how can we support you?
• New Kernow Health CIC website
• SSU providers sought for Improving Health Care Module
• Public guidance on attending vaccination appointments
• Latest NHS Kernow Highlight Reports
• Launch of the New to Partnership Payment Scheme
• Pensions guidance and update
• Burnout in health professionals
• GP funding and contracts explained

The monthly newsletter for the Duchy's GPs and practice managers. This issue includes:

• GP-to-do
• Requests from community hospitals for patient profiles
• Local Authority-funded health checks and other Public Health-commissioned services
• Gender dysphoria letter template to private clinics
• Working together through good and bad times – locum employers and doctors providing locum sessional services
• LMC database cleanse
• Managing cancer referrals
• Cervical screening restoration
• LMC pastoral support
• Practice Staff Training Programme 2020 update
• QOF payments
• Standard operating procedure for general practice during Covid-19
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) reimbursement
• BMA position on face masks
• Covid-19 risk assessment guidance for BAME and other staff
• Covid-19 testing
• CHIS data sharing arranegments
• CHIS update – Child Movers In process 
• Lloyd George notes
• Dispensing doctors – payments related to Covid-19
• DSQS remains suspended
• 111 direct booking
• CQC Emergency Support Framework
• Safe video consulting in general practice during Covid-19
• Appointments in General Practice
• Updated risk assessment guidance
• Perinatal mental health services in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines
• Cameron Fund newsletter

The monthly newsletter for the Duchy's GPs and practice managers. This issue includes:

• Keeping the nasties at bay!
• General Practitioners Committee (GPC) Roadshow in Cornwall – final chance to register
• Plea from the Coroner
• An old chestnut
• ‘Hard reset’ at University Hospital Pymouth
• Sign up to access Kernow LMC’s new website
• Practice Managers Learning Event – save the date
• Practice Staff Training Workshops
• Finance workshops
• The ERICA Trial
• The lowdown on the Macmillan Primary Care Team
• Update from Kernow Health/Training Hub
• Launch of GP faecal calprotectin pathway
• Reducing parental conflict: E-learning licence opportunity for practices
• Embrace Care update
• The PCN clock is ticking: Your three-month plan
• NHS England clarifies flexible funding arrangements for PCN additional roles
• General Medical Services (GMS) Ready Reckoner 2020/21
• CQRS – new participation only service offer for GP appointments in support of winter pressures
• Pension contribution rate for NHS Pension Scheme
• PCSE pension admin info for practices
• Escalation of pension concerns
• Coronavirus guidance
• Records of deceased patients
• Want to know how many of your patients are using the NHS App?
• IR35 guidance for locum GPs
• Almost a third of doctors may be burnt out and stressed, new study suggests
• Patient leaflet: what is an online consultation?
• Removal of fax machines from general practice
• BMA Patient Liaison Group recruitment

The monthly newsletter for the Duchy's GPs and practice managers. This issue includes:

• The Country Has Spoken
• PCNs – more time and flexibility needed for meaningful transformation
• PCN service specifications and the Network DES: analysis of engagement
• PCN monthly Tweet chats
• Explaining new team roles in PCNs
• New research on building effective teams in general practice
• Lifeline referral form
• Child Health Information Service (CHIS) update
• LIVI update
• GP safeguarding update
• Adult safeguarding update
• QOF Personalised Care Adjustments
• TIA coding error
• Emergency treatment under the Road Traffic Act
• Coronavirus guidance for primary care
• Practice Manager Salary Survey results

The monthly newsletter for the Duchy's GPs and practice managers. This issue includes:

• New LMC website
• Proposals for the service specifications for the PCN DES – position statement by Kernow LMC Executive Team
• Opportunity for PPGs to lobby nationally over draft PCN service specifications
• Medication returns and the need for prompt action
• PM Conference evaluation
• LMC levy deduction – November GMS Payment
• Non site specific/vague symptoms pathway briefing
• Faecal Immunochemical Testing for Symptomatic Patients (FIT 10) – update
• Performance Advisory Group newsletter
• Dementia training videos
• Police warning after burglaries and frauds at GP practices
• Influenza 2020/21 letter
• Schedule change to routine childhood immunisations (PCV)
• Legal action against NHS Property Services
• General Practice IT Survey
• Pensions
• Open Exeter update
• Updated BMA handbook for salaried GPs
• Electronic Prescription Service update
• Best practice for remote consulting and prescribing
• National General Practice Profiles: 2019 annual update
• GMC’s State of Medical Education and Practice annual report