You may be aware that yesterday NHS England published the draft service specifications for PCN’s new obligations form 1st April, as a wonderful Christmas present to everybody! Details can be found via the following link: You will see that…
Please see link below providing details of the Draft Primary Care Networks Service Specifications : Please read the service specifications carefully in order to give you the opportunity to respond to the document. This can be done by completing…
We have been encouraging practices to transfer Clinical Pharmacists from previous schemes to the new PCN ARRS scheme, as this will be to the benefit both of those practices and their PCN in the long term. As there are still…
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…
We have agreed in previous years that NHS England’s particular interpretation in this document, of “meeting the reasonable needs“ for the delivery of essential services , based as it is on the outcome of patient focus groups at the instigation…
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…
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 and GPC England have agreed on a non-mandatory, high-level data sharing template for use by PCNs. To make things simpler for practices, the BMA has also produced a version of the agreed template which expands on a number…
NHS England has published a Data Sharing and Data Processing template for PCNs, jointly agreed with GPC England, which are available on the NHS England GP contract page (in the ‘Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service’ section). Whilst the use of these…