New GP Payment System Changes
Please see link below for the letter from NHSEI and PCSE regarding a new payment system, for your information.
BLMC Admin
NHS Test and Trace App – QR Code
NHS Test and Trace AppThe new NHS Test and Trace App will launch next week on 24 September. The QR codes are not intended for healthcare settings but for business and other public buildings that will be mandated to keep…
GPC /RCGP Template letter to private providers about screening
Please find below information from the GPC for your attention. We have co-badged a template letter with the Royal College of GPs, that practices can use to write to private providers offering non-approved screening tests. Numerous private companies are offering…
New PCN DES – Documentation
Please note the full information and links below set out the changes that have been made to the Network Contract DES Specification and Network Contract DES Guidance for 2020-21, applicable from October 2020, for your information. Network Contract Directed Enhanced…
Request for GP Letter from COVID testing sites
The LMC have received queries from practices stating that patients were contacting them to ask for a letter from their GP to take to a Covid testing site. Patients were stating that they had been advised if they could provide…
COVID-19 antibody test results flowing to GP records
From 10 September, when a person undertakes an antibody test that is taken through the public antibody portal (an ELISA test), the result will be loaded directly into their patient records. This will be in addition to flowing of test…
QOF changes- GPC summary document QOF at a glance.
NHS England have now published revised QOF guidance which details the requirements for 2020 This guidance is effective immediately and the Statement of Financial Entitlement will be amended shortly to reflect this. The BMA have drafted a QOF at a…
GPC Update Remote fit notes
Remote fit notes – please remember to sign them DWP has asked the BMA to remind GPs that as per previously agreed guidance they will accept fit notes that are printed, signed, scanned and e-mailed to patients. This advice has…
Flu specifications 2020/21 (England)
NHS England have now published the updated flu specification for 2020/21 and the updated DES directions here. The updated specification makes a number of changes to the previously published version, expanding the eligible groups, with potential further expansion later in…
GPC Update – QOF
NHS England have now published revised QOF guidance which details the requirements for 2020 This includes detail of the following: The points and payment changes for the four flu vaccination and two cervical screening indicators; The indicators which will continue…