GPC: Easter opening guidance
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…
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Important information about children and Covid
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 Interim Guidance on DBS and Recruitment checks during Covid pandemic.
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…
Updated GP Standard Operating Procedures
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…
Identifying vulnerable patients – GPC guidance
Easter opening hours- message from GPC chair
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…
PHE – NEW PPE GUIDANCE
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…
BMA ETHICAL GUIDANCE ON COVID ISSUES
Please see below link, for further information regarding BMA Ethical guidance on Covid Issues.
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…