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

• A Tale of Three Conferences
• Meet the LMC’s second new practice manager representative
• Spotlight on the LMC Committee Members
• New registrations held up in EMIS and TPP systems
• LMC rebuttal letter for policing student absence
• LMC database cleanse
• Veteran Friendly GP Practices
• Remote IT access for GPs
• Peer Improvement Tips for Care and Health (PITCH) – Q&A update
• School-age immunisation
• Flu vaccination media release
• AGE UK – local winter support reablement package
• Winter pressures – public awareness
• Update on women’s health
• Diabetes PAM Service
• Self-care for GPs
• Briefing on rise in Group A Streptococcal (IGAS) and MRSA infections
• Social prescriber costs
• Primary Care Networks: a pre-mortem to identify potential risks
• An insider’s guide to PCN funding
• Revamped Models of Care Portal
• Critical incidents involving GP practice-based pharmacists
• Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework – summary for general practice
• Annualisation
• Latest jobs in local general practice
• Events calendar

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

•  ‘Another duck house for your moated second home anyone?’ 
• Reducing post mortems (PMs) in natural cause deaths 
• School-age Immunisation Programme: Payments to general practice 
• Peer Improvement Tips for Care and Health (PITCH) 
• Failed radiology reporting 
• Presentations from the Kernow Practice Managers Conference 
• Pastoral Support Service update 
• Flu vaccination media release 
• Flu latest 
• AccuRx update 
• Update – Cornwall System Wide Linked Dataset 
• National awards for local general practice 
• Training Hub Bulletin 
• Exception reporting – QOF implications 
• Wanted: Local PCN success stories 
• Transfer of clinical pharmacists to the PCN DES 
• Debt and mental health form 
• Safeguarding training update 
• Patient advocacy in primary care (duty to refer) 
• Falsified Medicines Directive 
• Learning disability registers 
• Care of people with a learning disability in GP practices 
• Locum guidance on pension annualisation 
• IR35 and the impact on locums 
• CAS Alerts for locums 
• Annual QOF report 
• Case studies wanted for GP recruitment campaign 
• Survey on cancelled/rescheduled CQC inspections 
• Improving the CQC’s registration processes 
• Practice manager survey 
• PSCE bulletin 
• General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) update 

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

• ‘The LMC was consulted’
• Good news from the Coroner
• Out of area patients
• Conference motions
• Waiting time data for RCHT specialities
• Practice Managers Conference now fully subscribed
• Housebound flu vaccinations
• Supporting young people in crisis
• Identifying patients at risk from prescribing – PINCER, Eclipse and Ardens (SystmOne)
• PINCER
• Update on women’s health
• Save the date – South West Regional PCN Conference: ‘Beyond the Basics’
• New BMA support package for Primary Care Networks and Clinical Directors
• PCN premises requirements for additional workforce
• Implementing social prescribing in PCNs
• Update on flu vaccine delivery and recommendations
• Indemnifying flu vaccines for staff
• National Data Opt Out – key support information
• The Primary Care (GP) Digital Services Operating Model 2019–21
• Falsified Medicines Directive update
• EU exit – medicines update
• Firearms consultation response
• Updated CQC myth-busters
• CQC guidance – mandatory training
• Revised guidance for the Friends and Family Test
• Personalised Health Checks
• General practice assistant role – Health Education England resources
• GP investment report
• GP earnings and expenses report
• Why sessional GPs should join an LMC
• The future of general practice – GP trainees’ views wanted

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

• Meet the LMC’s new PM representative
• Places filling up fast for the local Practice Managers’ Conference
• Conference of English LMCs
• Meet our new-look LMC Committee
• LMC database cleanse
• How to claim for PCSE error
• CHIS update
• Data Protection Officer service
• PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
• Guide to help newly qualified GPs navigate the appraisal and revalidation process
• Safeguarding reports and the CNSGP
• PCSE medical records incident
• Access to patient records
• Declining patient registration
• New CQC myth-buster: NHS services delivering online primary care 
• Updated CQC advice about managing test results and clinical correspondence
• 2019 Suture Tariff
• Practice Manager Job Satisfaction Survey results 2019

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

•  Tempus fugit
• CAMHS update from Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Update on Cornwall’s Children and Young People’s Eating Disorder Service (CEDS)
• Places filling up fast for the local Practice Managers’ Conference
• LMC database cleanse
• Evidence for housing applications
• Long waits for GPs with bodies until police arrive 
• Meet our new-look LMC Committee
• Data Protection Officer service
• Healthy GPs – Specialist Support Services – LMC Pastoral Support, GP Health,BMA Support
• Indemnity and travel vaccinations
• Flu template for completion
• Flu vaccines
• Administration of flu vaccination to health and social care staff
• PGD document retention
• New guidance available on PCNs
• Footnote in the DES Specification – Population Figure
• Clinical Directors in Kernow: please save the date
• National Framework for Healthcare Professional Ambulance Responses
• Firearms update
• NHS email addresses for locums GPs in England
• Pension annualisation
• Sessional GP blog
• NHS campaigns
• Infected Blood Inquiry leaflets
• National Framework for Healthcare Professional Ambulance Responses
• Firearms update
• NHS email addresses for locums GPs in England
• Pension annualisation
• New guidance available on PCNs
• Footnote in the DES Specification – Population Figure
• Clinical Directors in Kernow: please save the date
• National Framework for Healthcare Professional Ambulance Responses
• Firearms update
• NHS email addresses for locums GPs in England
• Pension annualisation
• Sessional GP blog
• NHS campaigns
• Infected Blood Inquiry leaflets
• HPV vaccine for boys
• PHE measles flyer
• Rabies – new leaflet for travellers
• Cameron Fund newsletter
• NAPC Awards launched
• Martin Marshall elected to be the next RCGP Chair

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

•  Update on Patient Initiated Follow Ups
• Sign up for the PM Conference
• DSQS 17/18 appeals update
• Microtest coding issue latest
• Referral permissions in Cornwall
• LMC Pastoral Support Service leaflet
• When do you need to notify your CCG about changes to your PCN?
• Small funded projects and the role of the LMC
• PCN regional event – save the date
• Liability insurance for Clinical Directors of PCNs
• Webinars to support the development of PCNs
• Social prescribing: making it work for GPs and patients
• FIT – GP survey and screening/symptomatic infographic
• Long acting reversable contraception update
• Latest NHS England Quality and Safety Bulletin
• What is your view of the future?
• Indemnity – “paid for” travel vaccinations no longer covered by CNSGP
• Bridging prescriptions for transgender patients
• RCGP calls for whole-system approach to improving NHS care for transgender patients
• What should GPs take into account when monitoring and managing patients on anticoagulant medicines?
• CQC Medicines Report – learning from best practice and incidents
• Fit for work ESA65B letter
• GP pension documentation retention advice
• Digital-First consultation
• General Practice Premises Policy Review
• Employer induction template to support general practice nurses
• Data privacy guidance from the ICO
• National Workforce Reporting System (NWRS) registration reminder
• Proposed new contract deal for junior doctors
• Practice manager job satisfaction survey

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

• Enough with the referral forms!
• Meet our new-look LMC Committee
• Collaborative fees and arrangements – what are they?
• Practice Managers’ Conference agenda now available – ‘save the date’
• PCSE and patient records
• Reporting deaths to the Coroner
• Personal and professional help when you need it from your LMC
• ‘Golden engagement thread’ to flag and resolve local issues nationally
• Gender dysphoria update
• GDPF and PCN templates
• Updated guidance – 2019/20 Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service
• PCNs and sessional GPs
• Latest RMS newsletter now available
• Audit requirements for the General Medical Services (GMS) Contract
• Government widens job shortage list
• Requests for medical certificates for school children during term time
• Protecting access to safeguarding notes
• Community pharmacy guidance
• Online appointment booking
• Google reviews and the CQC
• New Information Available on the Models of Care Portal
• Guidance on requesting transfers of NHS property companies
• LMC Buying Group newsletter

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

• Time for a bit of focus
• Helping establish Primary Care Networks
• Practice Managers Conference latest
• LMC meeting with local key opinion formers
• New practice manager representative on the LMC Committee
• LMC to attend regional GP Jobs Fair
• Employment Seminar – Health and Safety
• New claim form for reimbursement of NHS Pension Scheme contributions – 2015/16 and 2016/17
• Compensation to local practices for late GMS payments
• One-off opportunity to submit claims for missed CHIS claims
• New e-forms to report deaths to HM Coroner
• South West Child Health Information System (CHIS) update
• MSK practitioners improve patient outcomes and reduce pressure
• Safeguarding training in primary care – background to recommendations
• Shared learning from the Performance Advisory Group
• Update on General Practice Indicators temporary outage
• The National Flu Immunisation Programme 2019/20
• Suture code changes
• National workload survey
• Updated guidance for PMs on implementation of NHS App
• Diploma in Advanced Primary Care Management

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

• Neural, Social and Primary Care Networking
• Local GPC Roadshow presentation available
• Primary Care Networks – next step
• New LMC pastoral support service flyer
• Leadership changes in Kernow Health
• Expected Death Forms
• South West Child Health Information System (CHIS)
• Local GP fellowship opportunity
• Chronic pain in Cornwall – video update
• GPC Regional Elections 2019-22
• Sessional GP Sub-committee Elections – nominations open
• Database of practices involved in work experience
• New paediatric service for sexual assault
• GP contract funding figures for 2019/20
• Locum practice agreement
• CQC update
• Post Brexit employment of professionals
• Continuity of supply of medicines
• Controlled drugs in EPS – EMIS Web national rollout
• Vaccination charges
• Cervical screening – national awareness campaign
• NHS App webinars coming up
• Eight in ten PMs suffer verbal abuse from patients
• Latest PCSE Bulletin now available

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

• Editorial: De-mystifying the STP
• Meet the GP lead for early identification of cancers
• Final chance to register for the GPC Roadshow on the new GP contract
• Sexual health tender
• Indemnity costs
• Cervical screening latest
• Primary Care Networks
• Ordering of flu vaccines for 2019/20
• The work of the Cornwall Training Hub
• Firearms guidance updated
• Workforce developments
• GP Premises Survey results
• Child safeguarding update
• LMC courses for practice admin staff