The Blue Badge (Disabled Persons' Parking) Scheme was introduced in 1971 under Section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 ('the 1970 Act'). The aim of the scheme is to help disabled people with severe mobility problems to access goods and services, by allowing them to park...
Under the Road Traffic Act 1988, the first doctor providing emergency treatment to the victim of a road traffic accident is generally entitled to charge a fee. A fee may be levied in respect of each person treated (Section 158(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988). Mileage is also payable in excess...
Which areas of work come under collaborative arrangements? Fees under collaborative arrangements, Impact of competition law on negotiaing fees under collaborative arrangements, Obligations under collaborative arrangements, superannuation for work under collaborative arrangements, Advice from NHS...
Whether you are a locum GP, consultant, or an employer of locum services such as a GP practice or PCO, the BMA have guidance and fees to help with your negotiations.
Advice for locums
Negotiate your fee and the expenses you can claim for
Use the locum fees calculator
Locum agreements in...
General Dental Practitioners cannot sign patients off work, that is the responsibility of the GP. A GDP may well write a letter to a GP giving details and suggestions but is not authorised to issue the fitnote. Hospital doctors of course, can.
Doctors provide many services which can incur fees. Sometimes a fee relates to a specific treatment, in other cases the service in question may fall outside of a doctor's contract.
It is a complex area but whatever your branch of practice, you've come to the right place to find extensive...
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...
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SICKNESS CERTIFICATION
There has been a perennial problem with issuing sickness certification to those undertaking Community Payback (previously community service). This has been a particular issue with those asking for retrospective certificates. As a consequence the LMC...
BMA Advice:
Non payment of reports for coroners
Doctors have raised concerns with the BMA about not being paid for coroner reports or statements of fact which they are obliged to provide. Under the current system the coroner pays then reclaims funds from the Local Authority.
Prior to 2008 the...
When someone is deprived of their liberty anywhere other than a care home or hospital, this needs to be authorised by the Court of Protection.
The Court of Protection cannot make this determination without a declaration from a Doctor. They continue to use the term, 'unsound mind', as their...
Please find attached the latest DWP updates for cascade to GP colleagues.
Employment and Support Allowance
From 30th March 2015, claimants who were found fit for work on their previous claim for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) have not been paid ESA on a repeat claim, unless they have...
Please find below the latest Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) updates for cascade to GP colleagues:
Fit for Work
What is Fit for Work?
A supportive assessment of health and work and general health and work advice
You can refer your patient for an assessment if they are employed and have...
Guidance for GPs:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/465918/fit-note-gps-guidance.pdf
Guidance for Employers/line...
NHSE Information & Guidance for Medical Practitioners - Coronavirus Act: Excess death provisions
The Coronavirus Act of Parliament gained Royal Assent on 25 March 2020, and the commencement order for the clauses relating to death certification and cremation forms was signed on 26 March 2020....
The BMA has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (attached) with the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) on the licensing of firearms, which addresses and clarifies the long-held concerns of GPs around liability, making it clear that the legal responsibility for judging...
Fit for Work is a free and voluntary referral service designed to help employed people who have been, or are likely to be, on sickness absence for four weeks or more. The referral service comprises a telephone-based occupational health assessment culminating in a Return to Work Plan to help...
If a patient passes away and the family would like repatriate them to their country of birth, a ‘Free from Infection Certificate’ will be required from the Undertakers. The following provides information on what is required by the GPs in this instance:
If the patient has had a post mortem the...
Flu (Housebound), Out of Area Registration, Local Authority Payments, LARC update, Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, GPC Report, Debate: Opportunities and Implications of the Five Year Forward View for general practice and the LMC, Quality First: Managing Workload to deliver safe patient care,...
Domiciliary Dentistry, Flu (Housebound), National Review of FHS (KPCA), Interpretation Services, Contract Variations, Local Authority Payments, Friends & Family Test (FFT), LARC Update, APMS Contract, CQC, GPC Report - GPC News, Report from Sessional GP Meeting, Co-Commissioning of Primary Care...
Kent LMC Office has been contacted by Practices expressing concern about requests for information from HM Courts and Tribunals attracting the small fee of £17.00.
After discussing this with our local office from HM Courts and Tribunals Service in Sutton we can confirm this is the correct fee...
LMC Guidance, to GPs on Medical Reports in support of Housing Applications, including a letter to the patient, the local authority and a poster for the surgery.
Paper forms and guidance to create and register a lasting power of attorney (LPA).
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/make-a-lasting-power-of-attorney
School Medical Certificates
The NHS service does not provide any payment for Occupational Health Service for patients and that means the only medical certificates that GPs are required to provide are set out in the GMS and PMS Contract. In essence that is the provision of a MED 3 to an...
Doctors provide many services which can incur fees.
Sometimes a fee relates to a specific treatment, in other cases a fee may be charged because the service in question falls outside a doctor's contract.
Fees, along with when and how much to charge, is a complex area, but you've come to the...
Several GP have sought advice on the provision of medical certificates for patients who are joining gym's etc. This work is outside your terms of service and you are entitled to decline to provide such a certificate. If you do agree to provide such a certificate you are able to charge a fee at...
BMA Advice: Non payment of reports for coroners
Doctors have raised concerns with the BMA about not being paid for coroner reports or statements of fact which they are obliged to provide. Under the current system the coroner pays then reclaims funds from the Local Authority.
Prior to 2008 the...
The BMA Mental Capacity tool kit contains a series of cards relating to specific areas of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (England and Wales). It is designed to raise awareness of the Act and to help in good decision-making when providing care and treatment for people who lack, or who may lack,...
Ministry of Justice: Guidance for medical practitioners completing forms Cremation 4 and 5:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/325750/cremation-doctors-guidance.pdf
BMA Advice: http://bma.org.uk/support-at-work/ethics/cremation-regulations
BMA Guidance: Quality first: Managing Workload to deliver safe patient care
This guidance covers reducing clinical workload that is inappropriate for GPs or practices, so that GPs can be available for and improve access to patients requiring core primary medical care services. It also...
A patient has asked me to sign certifying that their health does not affect their ability to practise their profession...
There are currently 13 Professional titles that can only be used by individuals who are registered. The titles are
Arts therapists
Biomedical...
The BMA has spoken with the Passport Office with regard to the new forms. The need to put down a passport number is a post September 11 initiative and, as one of the new anti-terrorism measures, there is no chance that the rules are going to be altered for a particular professional group. This...
