July 2021

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