Kent LMC Weekly Update: 14th August 2023
Dear Colleague
Welcome to this week’s edition of the LMC Express. The local updates for this week include:
- Influenza Vaccination Update
- IT Failures
- Reminder: Workforce and Wellbeing Programmes
- Kent LMC Annual Conference: 5th October 2023
- General Practice Alert State (GPAS) National Reporting Dashboard
- A Message from NHS Kent & Medway Training Hub: Financial Support Available to NHS Staff - Interactive Guide
- A message from the East Kent Medical Examiner Service
- A message from NHS Kent & Medway: Primary Care listening events
- GPN conference: 8th September 2023
- Useful Links
- Upcoming LMC Interface Meetings
This week we have also attached the national update from the BMA, and we draw your attention to the following important announcements therein:
- GPC England advice re: influenza and covid vaccination programmes
- GPC England officer team elections
- Sessional GPs committee officer and executive elections
- Sessional GPs Conference
- LMC England rep to GPC England
- DHSC delays permanent introduction of primary care doctors
- NHS Long Term Workforce Plan Summary
- GP Patient Survey 2023
- Health and Social Care Committee recommendations
- Changes to the NHS pension from April 2023 – Do they affect GP Federations?
- Partial retirement
- Access to healthcare for people seeking asylum in initial and contingency accommodation toolkit
- Safe working in general practice
- Preparing for balloting on industrial action
- Wellbeing resources