The GDPR requires practices to process data ‘fairly’ and in a ‘transparent manner’ which is ‘easily accessible and easy to understand’. This means that practices must provide information to patients about how the practice processes patient data in the form…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU Regulation which will be directly applicable in the UK on 25 May 2018. The most relevant changes for GPs in their role as data controllers are highlighted in the box below…
GDPR changes to Subject Access Requests and fees from 25 May 2018 The General Data Protection Regulations and the Data Protection Act 2018 replaced the Data Protection Act 1998 on 25 May 2018, bringing in widespread changes to UK data…
Check the list of fees and guidance below: Asbestos medical examinations Benefits certification Certificates medico-legal Certificates GPs cannot charge for Charging your patients Childminder health forms Collaborative arrangements Consultant contract – guidance on fee paying work Coroners Cremation Debt recovery…
It has been brought to our attention that there are a number of practices that have, to date, NOT applied for reimbursement of their CQC fees. Some of these claims relate to the year 2017/2018 and many more relate to…
You may have, by now, received leaflets and guidance from PCSE relating to the year end NHS Pension Scheme. The links (below) are very useful and self-explanatory. They also contain the necessary forms that should be completed. Please note that…
For those of you that don’t yet know, please see copied below a story in today’s Health Service Journal. I’m yet to see any formal communication about this. This appalling decision comes as no surprise, sadly, despite the best endeavours…
Following the publication of England’s Chief Medical Officer’s open letter about prescribing of cannabis-based products, we have written to her to raise our concerns regarding the mention of shared care prescribing and the potential pressure on GPs to prescribe outside…
Following concerns about communications from online distance selling pharmacies which could be seen as misleading advertising and prescription direction, we have written to NHS England to raise our concerns. We published a statement advising practices not to engage with these…