Bulletins

CLMC Bulletin 403 - 15.10.19 including:

• Flu Vaccinations: general practice and pharmacy interface
• ACTION REQUIRED: RPOS and sharing of email addresses
• Pharmacy Contract Changes
• Primary Care Networks Survey
• Respond to the NHS Pension Scheme Consultation
• Locum Guidance on Pension Annualisation
• GDPR and SAR: update on the provision of medical records to solicitors
• Learning Disability Registers
• Medicine Shortages
• STPs and ICSs Guidance
• Sunday Mirror Campaign
• Decline in GP Pay
• BMA Response to No-Deal Readiness Report
• NHS App Campaign
• CMO Report on Childhood Obesity
• Vacancy for New Member on GMC
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 402 - 08.10.19 including:

• Primary Care Network Package
• GMS and PMS Amendment Regulations
• Medicine Shortages
• Flu Vaccination Leaflets in Various Languages
• Online Consultant Guidance
• Babylon GP at Hand Planned Expansion
• PCSE Surveys
• Debt and Mental Health Form (DMHEF)
• Registration to the MHRA Central Alerting System (CAS)
• Practices and Overseas Visitor Charging
• The Stress of Pensions, Updating Records and TRS Statements
• National Dynamic Purchasing System Events
• GPC NEwsletter

CLMC Bulletin 401 – 01.10.19 including:

• Primary Care Network Package launch
• Capita - Incorrectly Archived Records
• New regulations on notifications of death
• Firearms guidance and flowchart
• Statement from regulators on online primary care services
• Equality matters
• Benefits for mixed aged pensioner couples
• Updated DWP guidance for GPs
• New online procurement tool
• GP Retention Scheme
• Forensic and secure environments committee elections
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 400 – 24.09.19 including:

• Primary Care Network Addresses
• Primary Care Network Premises Requirements for Additional Workforce
• Indemnifying Flu Vaccines for Staff
• Inability to Log On to Access the Total Reward Statement
• EMIS issues
• GP Investment Report
• NHS Payments to General Practice
• Cervical Screening Capita Incident
• Recognition of GPs as Specialists by GMC
• Fire Arms Consultation Response
• New Medical School
• Integrated Urgent Care: Direct Booking Roadshow
• Opioid Prescriptions
• No Deal Brexit Warnings
• Public Accounts Committee Investigation into NHSPS
• BMA Report: Vision for the Future of the NHS
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 399 - 10.09.19 including: 

• PCN Development
• Survey of CCGs on PCN Service Specification Development 
• Bio Bank 
• GP IT Operating Framework
• BMA Briefing Paper on No-Deal Brexit
• Joint Statement on the Danger of a No-Deal Brexit
• Healthcare Insurance Needed in EU after Brexit
• GP Workforce Figures
• GP Earnings and Expenses Report
• GP Pressures
• The Primary Care (GP) Digital Services Operating Model 2019-21
• NICE Hypertension Guidelines
• New Medical Director for Primary Care in England
• Wellbeing Campaign Conference
• Digital First Providers
• HRT Supply Issue
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 398 - 03.09.19 including:

• GMS and PMS amendment regulations
• Half Day Closures
• PCSE Medical Records Incident
• HRT Supply Issue Update
• Additional Roles Reimbursement Guidance
• Data Sharing Agreement
• NHS England FAQs on Integrated Care Providers Contract
• Registration onto the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Central Alerting System (CAS)
• Clinical Practice Research Datalink
• Government Action to Improve Immunisation Coverage
• Age UK Calls for a More Considered Approach to Prescribing Medicines for Our Older Population
• Progress on Clinical Review of Standards
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 397 - 19.08.19 including:

• Local GP Support (Retention) Programme - Round 2 Funding Open for Applications ******DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION Monday 2 September*******
• Data Sharing Guidance
• Safeguarding Reports and CNSGP
• GP Reimbursable Sutures
• Personalised Health Checks
• Declining Patient Registration
• QOF Quality Improvement Domain –webinars for practice staff
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 396 - 13.08.19 including:

• Primary Care Network Data Templates
• GPC Letter to Prime Minister on Practice Premises Funding
• Patient Survey
• NICE Medicinal Cannabis Consultation
• Medicine Supply Update August
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 395 - 06.08.19 including:

• Erroneously Archived Medical Records by Capita
• Firearms Update
• National Framework for Healthcare Professional Ambulance Responses
• Emerade 500 Microgram and 300 Microgram Adrenaline Auto-Injector Devices Supply Issue
• Pensions Tax Charges
• Letter to the New Prime Minister
• CCG Mergers
• Active Practice Charter
• Hepatitis Resources
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 394 - 30.07.19 including:

• Pension Scheme Consultation Reminder
• Firearms
• Footnote in the DES Specification – population figure.
• CCG Mergers
• Capita/PCSE
• NHS Campaigns
• QOF Business Rules
• Flu Vaccines
• Digital First Consultation
• DDRB Uplift for GP Trainers Grant and Appraisers’ Fee
• Community Pharmacist Consultation Service
• Increased Funding Lead to Higher Patient Satisfaction
• Shared Parental Leave Survey
• Making General Practice a Great Place to Work – a practical toolkit to improve the retention of
  GPs
• NHSE Webinars for Practice Staff to Input to Vaccination & Immunisation Review
• Sessional GP Blog
• GMC and Regulation of Physician Associates
• Report Shows That Some CCGs Have Almost Twice As Many Patients per GP than Others
• GP Pressures
• National Access Review of General Practice Services: Regional and Themed Engagement
  Events
• Are You Involved in Delivering Cervical Screening?
• GP Trainee Elections
• BMA Regional Council Elections
• BMA Medical Academic Staff Committee Update
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 393 - 16.07.19 including:

• Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults: general practice reporting
• Safeguarding Training
• Cervical Screening - Guide to Prior Notification Lists
• Indemnity – paid for travel vaccinations no longer covered by CNSGP
• Fit for work ESA65B letter
• Pensions
• BMA ARM Webcast
• Martin Marshall Elected to be the Next RCGP Chair
• Medicine Supply Issue Update – July
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 392 - 09.07.19 including:

• Indemnity and travel vaccinations
• Infected blood inquiry leaflets
• GP practices and CCG responsibilities for DPOs
• GP pressures
• Committee of Medical Managers elections
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 391 - 02.07.19

• Digital First Primary Care Policy Consultation
• Premsies Review Report Published
• NHSPS Service Charges
• Pre-Registration Service for Patients leaving the Detained Estate
• Sexual health Teesside Newsletter
• Items Which Should Not Routinely be Prescribed in Primary Care: an NHS E update and a consultation on further guidance for CCGs
• PCSE Monthly Bulletin
• NHS Bed Pressures
• NHS Long Term Plan Implementation Framework
• HPV vaccine for Boys (England)
• Advice for Retention of GP Pension Documentation
• Quality Improvement Module Simulation Workshop
• RCGP Calls for Whole-System Approach to Improving NHS Care for Transgender Patients
• Junior Doctors' Contract
• BMA Safe Staffing Project
• BMA Annual Representatices Meeting Update
• READY Paramedics: A survey on the deployment of paramedics in primary care
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 390 - 26.06.19 Including:

• PCNs
• Annual Allowance and Tax Change Survey
• Quarterly GP Workforce Data Extraction - deadline reminder
• partnership Review - Survey
• BMA Safe Staffing Project
• GP Trainees Committee Elections
• Guidance on Registration onto MHRA Central Alerting System (CAS)
• Re-Train as a GP
• Public Health Medicine Committee Elections
• Symposium on Expert Witnesses in Family Law Cases Involving Children
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

PCN Event 25 June 2019: Please see the slides below from the PCN Event held at Sporting Lodge Inns.

• CLMC Your Practice, Your Contract and Your PCN - how does it fit together
• Hempsons PCN Employment Issues
• RMT VAT Presentation

CLMC Bulletin 389 - 18.06.19 Including:

• PCn Network Agreement GPDF Guidance and GPC Conference Update
• Annual Allowance and Tax Change Survey
• Medical Defence Union Legal Action
• Socail Prescribing: making it work for GPs and patient
• GP Pressures
• UK Doctors' Salary and Satisfaction Report 2019
• Proposed New Contract Deal for Junior Doctors
• Re-Train as a GP
• GP Trainees Committee Elections
• QNI Launches New National Survey of District Nurse Team Leaders
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 388 - 11.06.19 Including:

• PCN Network Agreement GPDF Guidance and GPC Conference Update
• Capita - Delay in Records Transfer
• NHS Complaints Data Return (KO41b)
• NHS England Interim People Plan and Pension Reforms
• Medicine supply issue update (June) and Epanutin update
• Independent Review into Gross Negligence Manslaughter Report
• Workforce Figures (England)
• NHS and Brexit
• New RCGP President Elected
• New Chief and Deputy Chief Medical Office (England)
• GPC NEwsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 387 - 04.06.19 Including:

• Updated PCN Network DES Guidance
• Annualisation Guidance
• GPC Pensions Letter
• Pension Taxation Research
• Emis Move to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Community Pharmacy Guidance
• Falsified medicines Directive
• Biosimilar Medicines
• MenACWY and EMIS flags
• Providing Flu Vaccinations for Staff
• Vaccine Acceptance in England 2018
• NHS Digital Workforce Data
• Shortage Occupation List Now Includes GPs
• BMA GP Trainee Elections
• Diamorphine and Microgynon Issue
• Guidance on Requesting Transfers of NHS Propery Companies
• RCGP Vision for General Practice
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 386 - 21.05.19 Including:

• PCN Update
• GP Pressures
• Seniority figures 2015/16
• Online Pharmacies
• Pension Annualisation
• Contract Variation Letters for EPS and Dispensing Practices
• Mental Health Awareness Week
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 385 – 14.05.19 Including:

• PCN Update
• Hold the date – 25 June 2019, 11am – 2pm
• Guidance on Sessional GPs and PCN interaction
• New Contractual Guidance and Ready-Reckoner
• Medicine supply update - click to open
• NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) – How Has Implementation Gone?
• NHS England Community Pharmacy Oral Health Campaign
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 384 – 30.04.19 Including:

• PCN Funding Holding and GPC PCN Support
• NHSPS Service Charges
• Update on General Practice Indicators temporary outage
• Sessional GPs elections
• DS1500 – Updated Guidance for Clinicians
• ESA65B - Issuing Fit Notes for Patients Appealing Their Work Capability Assessment (WCA)
• Integrated Care Provider Contract
• Sexual Health Teesside Newsletter
• Accessing BMA’s First Point of Contact (FPC) service
• BMA mental health survey
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 383 - 23.04.19 Including:

• Helping establish Primary Care Networks
• Time for care programme for GP practices
• Contract related changes to vaccinations and immunisation programmes
• Continuity of supply of medicines
• NICE hypertension consultation
• GP practice apprentices
• Technology, infrastructure and date supporting NHS staff
• Overseas Charging regulations
• Shortage of expert witnesses survey
• GPC newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 382 - 09.04.19 Including:

• PCN Toolkit and Templates
• Sexism and Harassment
• New Clinical Negligence Scheme for GPs (State Indemnity)
• RCGP Workload Observatory
• START- Hospital Treatment for Seafarers
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• COMAR 2019
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 382 - 02.04.19 Including:

• GP Contract & Roadshow Slides
• PCN Documentation and Clinical Director Forum
• State Indemnity
• Revised Primary Care Allocations
• Tier 2 Sponsorship
• Public Health Funding
• Return to Practice
• NHS E Primary Care Website Closure
• LMC Uk Conference
• Sessional GP Subcommittee Elections 2019 - Nominations Open until 18 April
• Gender Pay Gap
• Calling GP academics
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 381- 19.03.19 Including:

• Setting up a Primary Care Network guidance
• Major reduction in indemnity cost announced
• Locum practice agreement
• ICP contract in England consultation
• Prescribing of medicines over the counter
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter
• GPC Trainee Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 380 - 12.03.19 Including:

• PCNs - workforce expansion blog
• Indemnity Settlement 18/19
• Funding for Increased Employer Contributions
• Flu Vaccination Programme Delivery
• Shortage of Doctors - BMA Blog
• Santiary Products Free for NHS Patients
• #Balanceforbetter
• Training Hubs Essential to workforce Transformation
• Infection Control Bulletin
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 379 - 05.03.19 Including:

• Primary Care Networks (PCNs) Additional Blog and Guidance
• GP contract guidance
• PCSE & Pensions
• CQC Update
• Firearms Licensing Process
• ICS Briefing
• National Cancer Dianosis Aduit (NCDA) Information for Appraisers
• GPDF Guidance - Mis-selling of Fixed Rate Loans & Interest Rate Swaps
• GPC NEwsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 378 - 19.02.19 Including:

• Primary Care Networks (PCNS)
• ACCESS Guidance
• Electronic Transfer of Childhood Vaccination Data - Potential GDPR Breach
• Practices and Unfunded Services
•  Pensions Blog
• Pregabalin & Gabapentin
• GPC Newsletter
• GPC Sessional GP Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 377 - 12.02.19 Including:

• New GMS Contract and LMC/GPC Roadshow
• State Indemnity Cover under the New Contract
• Over the Counter Medicines Letter
• Brexit Briefing for Practice
• Sexual Health Newsletter
• Integrated Care Provdier Contract
• Regulation of the Medical Associate Professions
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 376 - 29.01.19 Including:

• Falsified Medicines Directive Guidance
• GDPR and ICO Live Chat Facility
• Update on Vaccines for 19/20 Seasonal Flu Vaccination Programme
• PCSE Year End Pension Communication
• Brexit - Continuity of Medicines Supply Legislation
• Implementation of the Medical Examiner System
• BMAs GP Practice Support Services
• Are you Interested in Being an Interantional GP Recruitment Practice
• GPC NEwsletter

CLMCBulletin 375 - 22.01.19 Including:

• Partnership Review
• DDRB evidence
• EU Exit operational readiness guidance
• New NHS Jobs Process and Pilot Practice Wanted
• Have You Retrained as a GP
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 374 - 15.01.19 Including:

• NHS Long Term Plan
• QOF registers and business rules coding issues
• EU Exit operational readiness guidance
• New CQC Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care
• Clexane 40mg Injection supply issue
• GPC Newsletter

CLMC Bulletin 373 - 08.01.19 Including:

• NHS Planning Guidance for 19/20
• NHS Long Term Plan Published
• Influenza Season 18/19: Use of Antiviral Medicines
• Meeting the Reasonable Needs of Patients
• Medopar (co-benedopa) Supply Issues
• Pensions Consultation
• NHS Payments to General Practice in England
• GPC Newsletter