Bulletins

CLMC Bulletin 425- 07.06.20 including:

• Faulty PPE
• Lapse of the emergency GMS regulations
• COVID-19 risk assessments
• Social distancing guidelines
• Shielding update
• Trust GPs to lead: learning from the response to COVID-19 within general practice in England
• Pandemic Medicines Delivery Service extension
• Mental health and wellbeing – looking after your practice team
• GP appointment data
• Annual GP recruitment drive
• Performers List processes associated with GP Registrars and professional standards
• Self Care Forum Coronavirus Innovations Award
• Survey on digital primary care and COVID
• Consultation on NICE indicators
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 424 - 30.06.20 including:

• Trust GPs to lead: learning from the response to COVID-19 within general practice in England
• Launch of the 'New to Parternship Payment Scheme'
• Mental health and wellbeing - looking after your practice team
• BAME doctors not being given access to COVID-19 risk assessments
• Indemnity arrangements for NHS Primary Care staff undertaking COVID-19 antibody tests
• Temporary resident registration for antibody testing
• Need for robust digital systems and sustainable plans to manage GP workload
• Shielding update
• GP standard Operating Procedure updated
• BMA issues holiday guidance ahead of domestic tourism return
• GP specialty training - round 2 applications update
• HEENE GP Post-CCT Fellowship Scheme - invitation for bids for funding to support GP Post CCT Fellowships
• MHRA Drug Safety update
• The Healer in times of COVID: supporting each other through adversity
• The CAmeron Fund: The GPs' own charity
• BMA COVID-19 Guidance
• Other Covid 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 423 - 23.06.20 including: 

• Antibody testing of practice staff
• National antibody testing update
• North East Schools Covid-19 FAQs
• BMA risk assessment guidance for practices
• PPE – face masks and coverings
• GP pressures
• Shielding 
• Pensions guidance and update
• PCN DES
• Appraisal update
• CQC inspections
• Regulation of physician associates
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin 

CLMC Bulletin 422 - 16.06.20 including:

• Risk assessment for BAME doctors and other staff
• BMA statement on wearing face masks
• Shielding
• Sustainable and environmentally friendly general practice report
• A new normal - Doctors' lives post COVID-19
• Minimising nosocomial infections in the NHS
• Implications for life insurance following antigen and antibody tests
• Antibody testing
• Covid 19 Pillar 2 lab results flow into GP records
• Referral to treatment (RTT) and re-referral
• Revalidation
• NHS Digital national GP data extraction to support COVID-19 planning and research
• Capturing beneficial innovation: call for examples
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Individual coaching support for primary care staff
• other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 421 - 09.06.20 including:

• Mental health presentations
• BMA fifth tracker survey
• Risk assessment guidance for BAME and other staff
• Standard operating procedure for general practice in the context of COVID-19
• Shielding
• BMA statement on wearing face masks
• Electronic repeat dispensing (eDR)
• GP Recruitment
• Briefing on role of contract tracing in outbreak control
• A patient’s guide to advanced care planning
• Extension of Serious Shortage Protocol for fluoxetine 10mg tablets
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin
• GPC Sessional GP Bulletin
• BMA Chair of Council Update

CLMC Bulletin 420 - 02.06.20 including:

• SOP Version 3
• NHS Track and Trace service across the UK
• Antibody testing programme roll out for NHS staff and patient
• NHS Employers risk assessment guidance for BAME & other staff
• PPE Portal
• Protection of the public's health and the most vulnerable must be an 'absolute priority' as lockdown eases
• Principles of safe video consulting in general practice
• NHS Digital national GP data extraction to support COVID-19 planning and research
• GP and practice COVID-19 toolkit
• A chance to press the reset button in general practice
• District valuer services
• Temporary residents and travelling patients
• GP workforce data shows further fall in FTE GPs in England
• Appointments in General Practice in England
• General Practice Research
• Supply of additional Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOSCs)
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 419 - 17.03.20 including:

• Pensions
• Submission of Estimates of Pensionable Earnings
• PCN Guidance
• Special Conference of English LMCs 
• NHSmail for Locums in England
• Serious Shortage Protocol for Fluoxetine 10mg Tablet
• Patient Liaison Group Vacancy
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 418 - 10.03.20 including:

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
• NHSmail for Locums in England
• Practice Registration – PCSE Online
• PCN Scenarios 
• Letter to CCGs on Financial Impact of GP contract and ARRS Funding 
• Special Conference of English LMCs 
• LES/LIS Investment 
• DDRB Submission
• Commonwealth Fund Survey of Primary Care Physicians
• Medicine Supply Update - Emerade 150mcg patient level recall
• NHS England Webinar: delivering digital transformation in primary care
• UK Annual Social Prescribing Link Worker Success Conference
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 417 - 03.03.20 including:

• GMS Ready Reckoner
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
• Joint Letter Calling for Pension Tax Changes
• Friends and Family Test – April 2020
• Medicine Supply Updates
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 416 – 25.02.20 including: 

• GP Contract in England
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
• PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme Slippage
• IR35 Guidance for Locum GPs
• NHS 111 Data Sharing Agreements
• NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) Consultation 
• Pensions
• Childhood Health Briefing
• Have your say - DWP survey for doctors involved in benefits process for the terminally ill
• GPC GP Bulletin
• GPC Sessional GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 415 – 18.02.20 including: 

• GPC England Contract Update
• PCN Conference 2020
• Coronavirus Update
• Regulations on Coronavirus (England)
• Medicine Supply Notification: Salbutamol
• GP Pressures
• Reform Report on Practice Premises
• IPPR Report on New Deal for Primary Care in England
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 414 – 11.02.20 including:

• GPC England Contract Negotiations
• NHSEI Operational Guidance 2020/21
• Coronavirus Guidance
• MDDUS Member Vote on Arrangements for Historic Liabilities
• Physician-Assisted Dying
• COMAR 2020
• BMA’s Public Health Medicine Committee (PHMC) - Sandy Macara Memorial Lecture & Conference
  
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 413 – 04.02.20 including:

• Coronavirus
• PCN Service Specifications Report
• Brexit
• Pensions Tax Charges
• GP Appointments Data
• NHS 'Rapid Response' Teams
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 412 – 28.01.20 including:

• GPC England Contract Negotiations
• BMA briefing – Impact of Pension Taxation on the NHS
• Coronavirus Guidance for Primary Care
• QOF Personalised Care Adjustments
• Flu TIA Coding Error
• New FP10 and Prescriber Endorsement
• Premises Claims against NHSPS
• NHS Pensions Records
• BMA Secures Significant High Court Victory over Unlawful Pensions Changes
• NHS England Campaign Materials
• PCN surveys
• PCN Conference 2020
• Physician-Assisted Dying Briefing
• DWP End of Life Survey
• Medicine Supply Update
• Community Infection Prevention and Control Bulletin for General Practice
• Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) – Your future GP Connectivity
• BMA MAPs (Medical Associate Professions) Publications
• GP Pressures
• GPC UK Regional Elections
• Public Health Conference 2020
• GPC GP Bulletin
• GPC Sessional GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 411 - 14.01.20 including:

• PCN DES Draft Service Specification
• NHS IT Investment
• Gender Pay Gap
• PCN Conference 2020
• CCG Mergers Guidance
• Online Consultations Toolkit
• BMA Mental health Workforce Report
• RCGP Workforce Roadmap
• Supply Disruption Alert for Phenytoin 100mg capsules
• GPC Regional Elections
• GPC Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 410 - 07.01.20 including:

• PCN Service Specification Survey
• Influenza 2020/21 Letter
• RPS: New competency framework for designated prescribing practitioners