October 2020

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