Emerade Adrenaline Auto-Injector Devices Shortages
The MHRA has issued CAS alerts on supply shortages of Emerade adrenaline auto-injector devices (150/300/500 microgram) – which will be unavailable for the foreseeable future. Read more here
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New FGM Clinic at Summerfield PCC
New FGM Clinic at Summerfield Primary Care Centre A clinic for women (18 years +) who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) is open at Summerfield Primary Care Centre, Heath Street, Birmingham, B18 7AL/ A range of support and care is delivered…
CONFERENCE OF ENGLAND LMCs 2019
The England LMC Conference took place Friday 22nd November 2019. The attached document details the conference resolutions and motions lost. Resolutions passed by the conference become GPC England policy which it is now tasked to take forward in its negotiations…
CAS alerts: supply updates on Ranitidine and Theophylline
The MHRA has issued CAS alerts on medicine supply shortages of Ranitidine and Theophylline. Ranitidine – Tablets, effervescent tablets, oral solutions and ranitidine injection are all expected to shortly be out of stock with no date for resupply until further…
VIOLENT PATIENT REMOVALS
I find myself once again having to write to practices about this matter. I attach the appropriate regulations which detail the grounds for immediate removal of violent patients and the procedure that practices must follow when a patient has committed…
HMRC updated employment status checker IR35
Following recent changes in IR35 legislation HMRC has updated its CEST online tool:
Medicine Supply Notifications – Edronax and Efudix
Communications from the Department of Health and Social Care regarding shortages for: Reboxetine (Edronax®) – 4 mg tablets will be out of stock from w/c 2 December until w/c 16 December 2019 due to manufacturing issues. Limited supplies of parallel…
Legal action against NHS Property Services
It was announced today that the BMA is launching legal action against NHS Property Services (NHSPS) over “unjustifiable” rises in service charges faced by GP practices. Practices leasing their buildings from NHSPS have seen their charges rise over the last…
Patient access to records -online guidance
GPC England and NHS England have published joint guidance on patient access to records online: prospective record access. This guidance aims to support practices in meeting the commitment to give new registering patients online access to prospective data, subject to…
Social prescriber costs Extended
Following calls from GPC England, LMCs, and PCNs, NHS England has today agreed to extend the purpose of the ARRS (Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme) funding for Social Prescribers. We are aware that nearly all organisations supplying a Social Prescriber Link…