Please see below important information from the Screening & Immunisation Team, Public Health England (South East):
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to make you aware of a recent change in the...
Please see attached supply update from the Department of Health and Social Care for Seroxat (paroxetine) 20mg/10ml oral solution which will be out of stock until January 2020 due to manufacturing...
http://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-events/news/hee-publishes-gp-recruitment-fill-rate-2016
NHS Digital has announced that the collection of GP Data for Planning and Research will go ahead on 1 September 2021. This has been deferred from 1 July 2021. More details can be found here...
Kent LMC is surprised and extremely disappointed at the content and tone of this publication dated 13th May 2021. General practice has never closed throughout the pandemic and has continued to see...
Kent & Medway has partnered with Lantum to build a new, digital staff bank
Kent & Medway ICS has chosen Lantum as a partner to create a system-wide, multidisciplinary staff bank.
The digital...
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Following recommendations from a number of key enquiries ( Dr Harold Shipman, Mid Staffordshire Hospitals) a new National Service, the Medical Examiner Service...
Kent Local Medical Committee applauds general practice for its amazing effort in delivering more than 300,000 COVID vaccines to patients across Kent and Medway. This has been a major achievement...
Patients of Kent and Medway, as you will be aware guidance is changing rapidly as the government do their best to keep us all safe. We would like to make one message clear as our colleagues in...
Please find attached DHSC Guidance for general practice on accessing DHSC centrally supplied flu vaccines.
Please click the link at the bottom of the page to access Kent LMC's Study of workload transfer to NHS General Practice from other providers.
Thank you to everyone that contributed to the...
As services resume from Covid-19 GP practices are facing unprecedented pressure from unmet patient needs and ongoing disruption in services in other parts of the NHS. This is on the background of...
The motion below has been debated at the Local Medical Committee England Conference on 22nd November 2019 and has been passed:
That conference believes that GPs no longer have the capacity to...
As you may be aware, one of the agreements in this year’s GP Contract changes was that CCGs were to provide the DPO function to practices from April 2019. Kent and Medway have now started to...
Dear Colleague,
A new campaign aimed at enticing more GPs to return to general practice was launched today.
Jointly run by NHS England and Health Education England, the campaign is designed to...
Following the publication of the GP Partnership Review Interim report in October 2018 , this document is the final report of an independent review into the partnership model of general practice,...
We ask that you cease accepting sharps of any kind from patients with immediate effect and refer the patient to their Local Authority to meet statutory obligations.
This will ultimately mean NHS...
The NHS Long Term Plan was published on 7th January 2019. The LMC Office have attached a summary of what this may mean for practices. Click HERE to read the full document.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/pensions/
SENT ON BEHALF OF DAWN HOLLIS TO PRACTICE MANAGERS, IMMS LEADS, CCGs, LMCs
Dear Colleagues,
Please see message below from the national flu team, along with attached documents.
The information...
Dr Gupta speaks to KMFM about how he is working with health bosses towards the safe implementation of electronic referrals in Kent and Medway.
Kent & Medway Medical School (KMMS) Update, Professor Chris Holland, Foundation Dean, KMMS
Indemnity Update, Keira Moulds, Head of Primary Care (Quality & Regulation), Operations and Information...
Following a query from an LMC that some practices are reporting that they are receiving increasingly detailed requests from care homes about ‘homely remedies’, requesting a GP to sign a form for...
Updated guidance on reflection
Following the Hadiza Bawa-Garba case many doctors feel they are no longer able to reflect honestly and openly.
The UK local medical committee conference earlier...
Please find attached a letter sent on behalf of the Kent LMC to Kent & Medway Hospital Trusts and CCGs regarding the Electronic Referral Service.
Press Release
The agreement to fund a Medical School based in Canterbury is a game changer for the provision of medical services in Kent and Medway. The effect will not only be that there will be...
Paul Cundy from the BMA has put a lot of work into producing Blogs for Practices and templates, but has had difficulty getting them onto the BMA website. So he has sent us an email which...
Dear colleagues
A short update on the strategic commissioner proposal following the NHS South Kent Coast CCG meeting last week. The GP membership met on 22 February to discuss development of the...
The Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) across Kent and Medway are looking at options for developing a strategic commissioner function that works across multiple CCGs. The aim is to strengthen...
Speaking about the implications of the Dr Bawa-Garba ruling from the High Court in London, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA Council Chair, said:
"The case involving Dr Bawa-Garba is a tragic one and it is...
The amount GPs are allowed to save into their pension each year before incurring a tax charge is being reduced. Any active NHS pension scheme member earning over £110,000 may be affected.
Please...
Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Correspondent, interviews Dr Julian Spinks, GP and Kent Local Medical Committee Vice-Chair on the current pressures in the NHS.
Dear Colleagues
CQRS have confirmed that as indicator HEP003 is now paid within the Global sum of Childhood Immunisation Target payments, this indicator is no longer a payment mechanism on their...
The GPC’s new campaign, Saving General Practice, sets out to remind local and national policy makers of the challenges that general practice is faced with, and the action that needs to be taken to...
Please see attached letter from NHS England following the announcement that in the 2017/18 flu season it will support the delivery of flu immunisation for social care workers that offer direct...
Please find attached a letter from the Co-Chairs of the BMA / RCGP Joint GP IT Committee regarding the move to SNOMED CT from Read and CTV3 codes that will take place in April next year. The...
Folkestone GP Crisis, Sunday Politics South East, 15.10.17 from Liz Mears on Vimeo.
Please find attached the FAQ document NHSE have put together based on queries received from practices. This is edited twice a year and a revised version is due in December 2017.
Please click on the links below to access the presentations from the Kent LMC Annual Conference, held on 11th October 2017:
GP Forward View—Where we are now? Dr Robert Varnam, NHS England, Head...
New GMS1 Form instructions for use from 1st October
By now your practice should have received an initial supply of the new GMS1 form to be used from 1st October. If an overseas patient chooses to...
The BMA continue to work on the ongoing issues with NHS Property Services (NHSPS) and Community Health Partnerships (CHP), and would like to remind LMCs and practices about their guidance on this...
We would like to highlight to prescribing clinicians in the practice that GPs have a contractual obligation to prescribe medication on an FP10 that the GP feels is clinically necessary whether the...
NHS England has announced that more patients in east Kent, north Kent and west Kent will benefit from having pharmacists working in local GP surgeries, as part of a further roll out of our...
With thanks to Wessex LMC for their permission to reproduce this document.
As we are all aware the NHS is facing some of the most significant challenges it has seen since its inception in the...
Dear LMCs,
NHS England have sent through the below guidance following the cyber-attack:
https://www.digital.nhs.uk/article/1495/Latest-guidance-for-NHS-on-protecting-against-cyber-attack
Please...
Following the release of our recent survey results to the press, please see below a link to the article published in Kent Online 'GP Services in Kent and Medway under pressure', where you can also...
Please find attached a letter from Chaand Nagpaul about the changes to the 2017-19 hospital contract which are designed to further reduce inappropriate workload on GP practices, and also improve...
We received the following communication from the BMA on the 24th March 2017 regarding QOF/GPES and Enhanced Service Payments:
Dear LMCs,
We are writing to make you are aware of the timings of...
Please follow the link below to see Kent Local Medical Committee's policy on the draft MCP contract.
Kent LMC are aware that some practices in Kent and Medway have been approached by Public Health England to prescribe prophylactic Tamiflu to the residents of nursing homes. Of course it is up to...
NHS England has now published and is consulting on a draft version of the voluntary Multi-specialty Community Provider (MCP) model contract.
We encourage you to take up the opportunity to...
Adequate support must be given to GP practices seeking to work collaboratively, the BMA has warned – following the latest findings of the GP...
This report is the culmination of 18 months of events and conversations with the medical profession, from GPs, consultants and trainees who work on the ground, to royal colleges, training...
The GPDF has issued the following brief introductory guide to its role and work.
Dear all,
Please find attached information from NHS England relating to Mefloquine, an anti-malarial which was prescribed to military personnel who were operating or training in Sub-Saharan...
NHS England has published details of its General Practice Resilience Programme. This document sets out the extent of NHS England's commitment to supporting and stabilise practices in difficulty....
New Care Models Programme's Monthly Stakeholder Bulletin
Please note the GPC email below relating to retired QOF indicators:
Dear LMCs
Practices in some areas have been asked again to accept requests within the Calculating Quality Reporting Service...
Kent LMC's response to the imposition of the Junior Doctor contract - 12th February 2016
General Practice is facing some of its toughest challenges. The BMA's Urgent Prescription for General Practice highlights the issues and provides some practical advice on how to meet the...
Dear colleagues
Meningococcal B for infants FAQs
NHS Employers have updated their vaccs and imms FAQs in relation to meningococcal B for infants to explain the eligible age cohort (2 - 13...
