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
