Bulletins

CLMC Bulletin 441 - 24.11.20 including:

• COVID-19 vaccination programme (CVP) national guidance -  we have provided a Q&A document via email to support practices in finding the answers to questions that have been raised locally, regionally and nationally
• Flu vaccination programme 
• Secretary of State praises GPs’ pandemic response 
• Letter to Secretary of State for Health on the need for CQC support for general practice
• Highest ever GP trainee acceptances figures
• BMA report on exiting the lockdown in England 
• Bone health card to help patients stay on osteoporosis medication 
• Shifting the Odds gambling awareness service, NHS Northern Gambling Service
• GPC England meeting 
• Parental leave webinar and workshop 
• GMC virtual conference 
• Mental health and wellbeing – looking after you and your practice team (new information included)

CLMC Bulletin 440 - 17.11.20 including:

• Prescribing - turnaround times for pharmacies
• Covid Vaccination Programme
• Letter to CQC on supporting general practice during a period of unprecedented pressure
• Guidance for doctors who are isolating and those in vulnerable groups
• GP workforce figures
• Updated Directed Enhanced Service Specification for flu
• Influenza immunisation call and recall error
• The early implementation of PSNs - evaluation study
• PCN Clinical Director survey
• Parental leave webinar and workshop
• Avoidable harm in Primary Care in England
• GMC virtual conference
• Mental health and wellbeing - looking after your practice team
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 439 - 10/11/20 including:

• Messages of thanks to general practice
• Second lockdown in England 
• Medicines home delivery service
• Protecting clinically extremely vulnerable patients (formerly shielding) 
• Temporary approval to suspend the need for signatures on prescriptions
• Workload prioritisation during COVID-19 pandemic 
• PCR COVID testing 
• PCN Clinical Director survey
• Performance Tracker 2020: How public services have coped with coronavirus 
• DWP Work Capability Assessments 
• NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)  
• DS1500 research 
• RCGP campaign - General practice is open 

CLMC Catch up bulletin- 27.10.20-3.11.20 including:

• Influenza immunisation FAQs (England)
• Pensions newsletter
• DDRB pay award and template letter
• CQRS system supploer change (England)
• GP appointments data (England)
• Tracker Survey Results
• General practice workforce initiatives
• Specialty training appliations
• parental leave guidance
• No Change to CQC fees

CLMC Bulletin 438 - 20.10.20 including:

• New three tier lockdown approach and BMA recommendations to help reduce spread of COVID-19 
• New advice for patients at high risk of COVID-19 infection
• General practice “Green Fund”
• Complaints (KO41b form) data collection for 2019/20 
• CQC state of care annual report
• GP Latest Updates – new NHSE webpage
• Primary Care representation on ICS boards
• Cameron Fund Christmas Appeal
• NE&NC Procurement Framework – Important Update for NHS Employers
• General practice is open, get checked for cancer – social media campaign
• BMA Library resources
• Covid Virtual ward – Wessex webinar

CLMC Bulletin 437  - 13.10.20 including:

• Accessing additional flu vaccine supplies  
• NHSPS charging for COVID-19 related requests
• Roche supply issues impact lab tests 
• Clinical validation of surgical waiting lists framework and supporting tools 
• New to Partnership scheme 
• Changes to the Supporting Mentors Scheme
• GP Fellowship scheme podcast  
• NHS.net email address
• BMA survey on physician-assisted dying - results 
• Survey to assess the impact of COVID-19 on child protection conferences
• BMA and GPDF confirm agreement on GPC grant arrangements for three years  

CLMC bulletin 436  - 06.10.20 including:

• COVID-19: general practice during the second wave
• GMS contract amendments
• TEWV Listening Service
• Supporting effective collaboration between primary, secondary and community care in England
• NHS Community Diagnostics Hubs
• JCVI advice on priority groups for COVID-19 vaccine
• £20k New to Partnership Incentive
• PCC online training: Financial management considerations for GP partners Wednesday 28 October 2020 (10.00 - 12.00)
• GP Fellowship Scheme Webinar, Wednesday 7th October 19.00 - 20.00
• One career endless opportunities #Choose GP
• NHS Pension Schemes consultation
• Survey of Salaried GPs
• Responding to the death by suicide of a colleague in primary care: a postvention framework
• Practice rental payments
• Impact of austerity on general practice
• GP appointment data

CLMC Bulletin 435 - 29.09.20 including:

• NHS contact tracing app
• GP appointment data
• Delivering the flu vaccination programme
• Locum doctors and flu vaccine
• New rules for controlling the spread of COVID-19
• GP Pay and Pensions system
• Revised Network Contract DES material published
• Survey of Salaried GPs
• Practice rental payments
• First Contact Physiotherapist evaluation and webinar - Wednesday 30th September 2020 - 12.00 - 13.30
• Template letter to private providers about screening

CLMC Bulletin 434 - 22.09.20 including:

• Face-to-Face appointment
• Flu Vaccination
• Workforce data collection reminder, deadline 30 September
• Pharmacy changes to reduce GP workload
• Revised Network Contract DES guidance
• Template letter to private providers about screening
• NHS Test and Trace App
• CQRS update
• South Primary Care Training Hub (your training hub for the whole of Tees Valley)
• Annual Representatives Meeting 2020
• NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
• RCGP Practice and PCN support and development

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CLMC Bulletin 433    - 14.09.20 including:

• Flu specifications 2020/21
• QOF
• Automation of PCN payments
• COVID-19 antibody test results flowing to GP records
• Remote fit notes - please remember to sign them
• Extension of two fluoxetine Serious Shortage Protocols
• Appraisal 2020
• The NHS pension scheme as a sessional GP
• RCA and Less Than Full Time (LTFT) trainees
• GP earnings and expenses 2018/19
• Annual Representative Meeting 2020
• Evidence Based Interventions programme - post engagement event

CLMC Bulletin 432 - 01.09.20 including:

• GMS and PMS regulations changes from October 2020
• Registering patients prior to their release from the secure residential estate
• Redacting GP records
• GP workforce data
• GP appointment data
• Annual Representative Meeting 2020
• BMA photography competition
• Social Prescribing Link Worker Day Conference
• GPC GP Bulletin
• GPC Sessional GP Bulletin
• Mental health and wellbeing- looking after your practice team
• BMA COVID-19 Guidance

CLMC Bulletin 431- 25.08.20 including:

• Infection prevention and control guidance
• BMA analysis of NHS England - phase three of the response to COVID-19
• GMC fees and maternity leave
• Mask exemption letters for air travel
• Tracker survey shows doctors have little confidence that wider NHS services can manage demand
• New National Institute for Health Protection
• Impact on practices of the government lifting the cap on medical school places
• Registering patients prior to their release from secure residential estate
• New restrictions on stimulant laxatives to counter risks from overuse
• NHS Property Service legal action 
• Briefing on the ‘McCloud’ public consultation on the NHS Pension Scheme
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 430 - 18.08.20 including:

• Indemnity for flu vaccinations
• Vaccine supply for the 2020 to 2021 children’s flu programme
• Cervical Screening Administration Service – new telephone number
• New GP practice profiles on the NHS website
• Final pay controls
• Serious Shortage Protocol for fluoxetine
• General practice appointment updated guidance
• Updated Standard Operating Procedures for general practice
• Risk assessments
• Supporting Mentors Scheme and GP Fellowship programme
• Impact of long-term Covid-19 symptoms on patients and doctors
• NHS People Plan 2020/21 – BMA summary & commentary
• PPE Portal
• Less Than Full Time (LTFT) conference
• Bulletin for General Practice – Infection Prevention and Control: Issue No 28
• Specialist and professional committee elections - reopened nominations and voting open
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 429 - 11.08.20 including:

• Face coverings
• Report on how COVID might affect the number of GPs available to see patients
• Tees Valley Training Hub
• GP appraisal restart
• 2020/21 Healthcare Education & Training Tariff Guidance
• Menopause report
• Locum GP webinar 13 August
• RPS calls for pharmacists to be able to alter prescriptions
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin
• GPC Sessional GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 428 - 04.08.20 including:

• Flu programme
• PPE portal
• NHS England/Improvement “Third phase of NHS response to COVID-19”
• Health and care workers to self-isolate on return to UK from high-risk countries
• Shielding guidance for staff on returning to work
• Extension of self-isolation period to 10 days
• DDRB pay award
• Support for doctors affected by discriminatory pension scheme changes
• June appointments in general practice statistics published
• Joint statement on performance management processes
• Dispensing Services Quality Scheme
• Government obesity strategy
• NHS People Plan published
• Mental health and wellbeing – looking after your practice team
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 427 - 28.07.20 including:

• DDRB report
• Face coverings in general practice
• Letter for exemptions
• Shielding guidance for staff on returning to work
• Covid certification for travel
• Flu programme announcement
• Action to improve vaccine coverage rates across the UK
• RCGP guidance on delivering mass vaccinations
• IGPR scheme to be paused and reviewed
• GP trainee recruitment
• Mental health support in practices
• Mental health and wellbeing – looking after your practice team
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 426- 21.07.20 including:

• COVID-19 Fund    
• GPC England guidance on arrangements for GP services for remainder of 2020/21
• Face coverings
• Joint guidance for remote intimate clinical assessments  
• Shielding guidance for staff on returning to work
• Tax on COVID-19 testing by employers
  Update on GP services for 2020/21
• NHS Health Check: Restart Preparation
• NHS pressures and back log of services  
• Clinical guidance on maintaining immunisation programmes during COVID-19
• Patients being redirected to NHS111
• Faulty PPE
• Easing lockdown measures and the need for local infection data
• COVID-19 care home support service
• NHS Confederation report on PCNs
  Social Prescribing Link Worker report
• GP appointment data
• GP patient survey results
• RCGP report - General Practice in a Post-COVID World
• BMJ Learning clinical guidance: COVID-19 in primary care
• Judicial Review against the Northamptonshire safeguarding partners
• Mental health and wellbeing – looking after your practice team
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Other COVID 19 resources
• GPC GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 425- 07.07.20 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