The General Pharmaceutical Council, the GMC and other UK regulators of healthcare services, medicines and health professionals have put out a joint statement on online primary care services and ensuring medicines are prescribed and dispensed safely and appropriately online. This…
NHS England and NHS Improvement is launching a new online procurement tool which will include a list of pre-approved GP providers that local commissioners can invite to deliver their local GP service needs, including caretaker services. This approach, known as Pseudo…
Primary Care Network Package launchWe have launched a PCN package of support this week, based on what GPC, LMC and PCN colleagues told us they need during a series of roadshows, webinars, masterclasses and the PCN conference earlier this. It…
Further to the email to practices of 22 July copied below, NHS England has now published its outcome to this consultation. For those of you that haven’t seen this as yet, I’d urge you all to read this very carefully. Needless…
Links to the regulations and to guidance for doctors on this are copied below, and all GPs are advised to familiarise themselves with these. I’ve also copied a link to guidance to coroners on the changes for further information. …
Following the contract agreement in England earlier this year, the GMS and PMS amendment regulations have been laid before Parliament and have now been published on the gov.uk website. These amendment regulations will come into force from 1 October 2019.…
NHS England has released some explanatory FAQs on how the Integrated Care Providers (ICP) contract will operate and what will be the impact of the contract. We have repeatedly highlighted our serious concerns about the ICP contract and that we believe…
The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Central Alerting System (CAS) is the national system for issuing patient safety alerts, important public health messages and other safety-critical information to all providers, including GP practices. From 1 October 2019, MHRA…
After further discussions on some of the finer definitions of the scope of CNSGP, it has been agreed with DHSC and NHS Resolution that the compiling of safeguarding reports for NHS patients will now be included within scope. It was…