This morning we published a toolkit for GPs and practices which should hopefully answer many of the questions we’ve been getting on a large range of topics. It covers: Service provision, Home visits and care homes, Redeploying staff, working in…
The LMC appreciates how desperately hard all GPs and practices are working to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and its fall out, including the need to very quickly move to radically transform models of care delivery. The crisis has also,…
A few days ago a concern was raised that areas where hot hubs are being set up were being contacted by CQC staff saying that all practices were going to have to inform CQC of changes to their operating model.…
Please see attached link for GPC guidance about Easter opening. We would like to remind all practices that we have asked the CCGs to fund over and above the paltry and insulting resources committed by NHS England, and…
Wessex LMC has been working closely with one of our local Paediatricians, Dr Sanjay Patel a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at University Hospital Southampton, he has been working with the The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) they are…
CQC publish interim guidance on DBS and other recruitment checks, for providers recruiting staff and volunteers to health and social care services in response to Covid-19. This is in response to temporary changes being made by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to DBS applications and processes. It will be in operation…
NHSEI’s updated COVID SOP for general practice has just been published, see below: We would draw your attention to a couple of areas where the LMC has concern, below. The SOP is guidance and not mandatory and, as always, whilst…
The emergency changes to GMS contract regulations published last week, requires practices to be open on Good Friday and Easter Monday, as it is expected that this bank holiday period will coincide with a peak in activity in many parts…
New updated national guidance on PPE has just been published and I attach the recommendations for primary care. Here is the link to the government statement: Whilst it’s an improvement on what we have had hitherto, particularly in respect…