GPC Pensions Issues Update
Please find below link to a briefing GPC has produced on current issues relating to GP pensions.
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Falsified Medicines Directive
The Falsified Medicines Directive will become effective on 9 February 2019. The Directive introduces tougher rules to ensure medicines are safe and that the trade in medicines is rigorously controlled. This will have an impact on all practices which, therefore,…
Revised Minor Surgery ES 2018-19
You will have recently been sent the attached revised minor surgery specification by BSOL CCG. The changes in the specification have been highlighted, and have been brought in following intervention by the LMC when it came to its attention that…
Sessional GPC Newsletter August 2018
Here is a link to the latest Newsletter:
Government’s response to DDRB recommendation
In line with BMA’s request for a further 4% increase (in addition to the 1% already agreed in the 2018/19 GP contract negotiations) in general practices’ funding, the DDRB recommended this 4% uplift to the government. The government’s response is…
GPC: GDPR Updated Guidance
Please see below the link to the updated GPC GDPR guidance on the BMA website (the new section is under FAQs).
Diamorphine supply issue
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England have been made aware of a manufacturing issue from one of their suppliers of Diamorphine 5mg and 10mg injection. There are currently two suppliers of Diamorphine injection in the…
Further GPC (GDPR Guidance)
GDPR privacy notices Template GDPR practice privacy notices (PPNs) have now been published on the GDPR hub page in the BMA resources section. The hubpage also contains information on the regulation and hosts a suite of resources and blogs to help guide members, including…
GPC GDPR webpage
A hub page for GDPR information has now been launched on the BMA website. This provides information on the regulation and hosts a suite of resources and blogs to help guide members. This page will be updated regularly as new…
All practices in NHSPS premises – lease heads of terms
We understand that NHS Property Services issued their lease heads of terms to practices on 31 March 2017. Please be advised that these terms are negotiable by practices on an individual basis. The terms sent out are not enforceable, but…