BMA ETHICAL GUIDANCE ON COVID ISSUES
Please see below link, for further information regarding BMA Ethical guidance on Covid Issues.
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CPR in Covid patients guidance
In case you haven’t seen them, please find some guidance on CPR both in the community and hospitals. Whilst these are stated to be in relation to Covid–infected patients it goes without saying that Covid cannot be excluded in any…
Final: PCN DES spec and contractual changes
The definitive 20/21 GP contractual changes and PCN DES documents have now been published: https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/investment/gp-contract/ A lot has changed since the original contract was agreed and the focus of the PCN DES is now ostensibly mainly to support practices to increase their…
Right to work verification for returning doctors-NHSEI GP BULLETIN
We are aware that many of you are rightly incensed by this item in the daily GP news from NHSEI, and that indeed some practices have experienced returning doctors turning up at their surgeries for verification: Across the NHS we…
Guidance from General Register Office on changes to MCCD processes – Emergency pandemic legislation
New pandemic emergency amendments to GMS and PMS regulations
Updated Covid pregnancy guidance
Updated advice for pregnant women who are working in the NHS and other work settings during the coronavirus outbreak Organisation: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Type: Press Release Date: 26 March 2020 Updated guidance emphasises that pregnant women of…
BMA Ethics FAQs for Covid-19
Please see below link to some BMA ethics FAQs for Covid-19.
Coronavirus Act is now law
For information, the following link is an extremely useful set of explanatory notes on the effect of the new Act. There is also a useful further commentary, this time specifically on managing the deceased. Further GPC guidance will be…