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
