September 2020

The LMC's monthly newsletter for the Duchy’s GPs and practice managers includes:                                                                               

• Flu update for 2020/2021: (hopefully) what you might like to know, all in one place

• Peer Improvement Tips for Care and Health (PITCH)

• Radiology sedation rebuttal letter

• CAMHS survey for GPs

• Examination of vulnerable people for safeguarding purposes

• GP Cancer Briefing

• Virtual Well-being Sessions for Practice Managers

• Covid-19 expenses

• Covid-19 fund for GP practices now available 

• Covid-19 response – supplementary materials for third phase implementation

• Reviewing children and young people on the shielded patients list

• Infection prevention and control guidance

• Bulletin from the Community Infection Prevention and Control Team for General Practice

• Section 88 of the Road Traffic Act 1988

• PCNs warned unspent additional roles funding may ‘be lost to general practice’

• GMS and PMS regulations changes from October 2020

• Estates planning support and guidance

• NHS Property Services legal action

• GP appraisal restart

• Registering patients prior to their release from the secure residential estate (detention)

• Cancer Research UK publish early diagnosis of cancer support guide 

• Best practice in handling complaints and claims 

• More accurate general practice appointment data

• Mentor Scheme

• NHSEI general practice fellowship guidance launched

• Healthcare education and training tariff: 2020 to 2021 

• Apprenticeship funding 

• Aspiring medics sign up for virtual GP work experience during Covid-19 crisis

• Lobbying over pay 

• Final pay controls

• Taking care of the carers in your GP practice workforce

• New GP practice profiles on the NHS website

• Redacting GP records

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data breaches

• ARM Elections