BMA Guidance: Access to Health Records - How to handle requests, including subject access requests, requests from third parties such as insurers and the police and requests for records of deceased patients.
NHS Digital: Accelerating patient access to their record - From April 2022, patients...
This GMC guidance sets out the necessary considerations when carrying out intimate examinations and the sensitivity with which they should be approached.
It covers the things you should discuss with patients prior to an examination, what to do during an examination and the role of...
GP practices' responsibilities, including checks, audits and disposal bags when it comes to disposing of clinical waste.
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/gp-practices/gp-premises/disposing-of-clinical-waste
The LMC office have received many enquiries since Capita (PCSE) took over from KPCA regarding how to claim fees due under Collaborative Arrangements. After much research we have discovered that practices can claim via SECSU by sending invoices based on the table of fees below.
What are...
Tel: 01689 887840
Free advice available from a team of Employment Law specialists from Clarkson Wright & Jakes on all employment issues affecting your Practice.
Clarkson Wright & Jakes Ltd
Valiant House
12 Knoll Rise
Orpington
Kent
BR6 0PG
Tel: 01689 887840
E-mail: cwj@cwj.co.uk (please...
Clarkson Wright & Jakes have recently reviewed and updated the template contracts and policies to ensure they comply fully with current employment law and practice and CQC requirements.
The following documents are now available on the KMGP Website:
Policies:
Social Media Policy
Retirement...
Kent LMC Advice
Please read the GPC Guidance before deciding how to proceed to remove a patient. The LMC advice builds on the GPC guidance with some suggested standard processes and letters that you can adopt. Also attached is a suggested Practice Charter that should be part of your practice...
We understand that some practices nationally have not been made aware of the changes to the requirements to Display Energy Certificates (DEC) and Advisory Reports (AR). Previously public buildings of over 500sq/m faced this requirement. In July 2015 this was reduced to public buildings over...
Help me, I'm a Doctor
Financial support for doctors and their families - bringing together five independent charities that can provide financial support for doctors when they need confidential financial assistance. These benevolent funds provide vital support to help doctors in genuine...
The following questions have been developed to support the introduction of the General Practice Alert State or GPAS and is based on feedback obtained through one-to-one interviews and other general discussions with Practices that have been involved in the pilot programmes coordinated by the Kent...
The GP Retention Scheme is a package of financial and educational support to help doctors, who might otherwise leave the profession, remain in clinical general practice.
The GP Retention Scheme replaces the Retained Doctors Scheme 2016. The scheme continues to be managed jointly by the local...
GPAS DEFINITIONS - STAKEHOLDER AND PRACTICE LEVEL GUIDE
STATUS
OVERVIEW
CRITERIA
GREEN
This implies low level of pressure; the practice is appropriately staffed and there is sufficient capacity to meet patient demand and expectations. GPs in the practice are working to BMA recommended safe...
For information on GP Staff Training across Kent & Medway please contact the KMGP Staff training team via learning@invictahealth.co.uk (tel 03000 426 016) or click on the link below:
https://invictahealth.learningpool.com/login/index.php
The Interpreting and Translation service provided by the ICB is for the delivery of services related solely to the GMS contract, including delivery of services provided under LES and DES arrangements.
Telephone Interpreting: No prior approval required
Telephone interpreting will be the method...
Kent LMC joined the LMC Buying Groups Federation in 2008 to deliver savings to practices without creating any additional work or inconvenience.
What does the Buying Group offer?
Membership entitles practices to discounts on products and services provided by the Buying Group's...
We regret to inform you, despite the LMC's best efforts, that contracts for both counselling and mediation lapsed and there are no immediate plans for these services to be commissioned by NHSE.
We have detailed below organisation who provide services to practices - please bear in mind practices...
A new occupational health service has been commissioned by NHS England and is now available to NHS GPs working across the South of England.
The Heales Medical Group, an established provider of occupational health services began delivering the new service on 1 April 2017,...
BMA Guidance on Parental Responsibility and Consent
Parental responsibility refers to the rights, duties, powers and responsibilities that most parents have in respect of their children. Parental responsibility includes the right of parents to consent to treatment on behalf of their children,...
A child is defined as Under 18 by the Children's Act 1989
We are often asked if a parent can have access to their child's medical record when there is a clearly a dispute with the other parent.
Anyone with 'Parental Responsibility' can apply to access a child's record.
Who has Parental...
BMA Guidance: Patient Registration - rules regarding temporary residents, homeless patients, overseas visitors, the duty to give treatment, and when they can decline to register a patient. This guidance will clarify the conditions surrounding patient registration in GP practices in England. The...
Introduction
The Terms of Service have always allowed GPs to remove a violent patient from their list. Patients removed in this way were then allocated to the list of another GP and few if any attempts were made to deal with the source of the problem.
In January 2000 the Department of Health...
