Kent LMC Weekly Update: 21st August 2023
Dear Colleague
Welcome to this week’s edition of the LMC Express. The local updates for this week include:
- DDRB Report 2023/24 : Update for General Practice
- BMA welcomes NHS England’s U-turn on vaccine programme delay 11th August 2023
- Long-Acting Reversible Contract (LARC) contract update
- Reminder: Workforce and Wellbeing Programmes
- Kent LMC Annual Conference: 5th October 2023
- General Practice Alert State (GPAS) National Reporting Dashboard
- GPN conference: 8th September 2023
- A Message from NHS Kent & Medway: Return to practice Events
- 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:
- Parliamentary activity
- 23/24 pay award guidance
- Cancer referrals
- Re-ballot for junior doctors strike action open for eligible GP trainees
- Reminder: For recently CCTed GP trainees to check that they get their back pay
- GPAS (General Practice Alert State) reporting
- Relaunch of Return to Practice Programme
- England Conference of LMCs
- Election for Chair of LMC UK Conference
- Safe working in general practice
- Preparing for balloting on industrial action
- Wellbeing resources