2023 Bulletins

CLMC Bulletin 19.12.2023 including:

• Have your say on the future of general practice - COMPLETE OUR SURVEY
• GP finance survey
• Inclisiran
• Online access to records - data breaches from misfiling of records
• NHSE guidance on DHSC funding for non-consolidated pay awards
• MAPs to be regulated by the GMC - write to your MP
• Afghan relocation programme - ICB funding
• Annual Conference of Representatives of LMCs (UK) 2024
• Cameron Fund Christmas Appeal 2023
• Preparation for any future ballot
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 05.12.2023 including:

• Have your say on the future of general practice
• Preparation for any future ballot
• Locum GPs reporting reduced opportunities
• LMC England conference 2023 update and resolutions
• eDec Submission deadline – Friday 1^st December
• Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism
• GP pressures and workforce data
• Shingles technical guidance
• MMR Catch-up campaign
• What can we learn from innovation in general practice
• UHUK Awareness Campaign – Winter 2023-24
• Wellbeing resources
• Survey on how to prevent and reduce violence towards NHS staff
• Undergraduate GP Placement Survey

CLMC Bulletin 14.11.2023 including:

• GPC England meeting update
• General Practice pressures and data
• Accelerated Access to Records Programme update
• Physician Associates
• Seasonal Vaccination Update
• Navigating GP Premises Service Charges
• LMC England conference 2023
• GP trainees committee renames itself the GP registrars committee
• NHS Suicide Postvention Guidance for staff
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 31.10.2023 including:

• Accelerated Access to Records Programme update
• PCSE Seniority Payments Reconciliation Exercise 2023
• GPCE and RCN joint Statement on GP practice staff pay uplift 2023/24
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 17.10.2023 including:

• Accelerated Access to Records Programme update
• Update on negotiations relating to DDRB recommended 6% uplift
• Best Practice Show
• New BMA guidance for sessional GPs
• LMC England Conference 2023 – reminder to register
• DWP Fit note guidance
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 03.10.2023 including:

• 2023/24 DDRB general practice salaried staff pay award 
• Biobank
• Accelerated Access to Records Programme update
• GP pressures – workforce data
• CNSGP indemnity guidance for general practice
• Best Practice Show, 11-12 October 2023, NEC Birmingham
• Sessional GPs Conference
• Locum Pension Processes webinar
• UK LMC Conference - May 2024 - Save the date
• Undergraduate GP Placement Survey

CLMC Bulletin 19.09.23 Including:

• COVID-19 vaccination programme
• Meeting with primary care Minister
• Accelerated Access to Records Programme update
• RAAC in GP Premises
• 2023/24 DDRB recommended pay rise for salaried practice staff
• Inclisiran
• Eco Flex Forms
• Completing DVLA medical forms
• NHS England GP Access campaign
• European definition of General Practice
• Best Practice Show, 11-12 October 2023, NEC Birmingham
• LMC Secretaries Conference 2024
• Free BMA membership for International Doctors
• NHS England local clinical excellence awards scheme for SAGPs
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 05.09.23 including:

• COVID vaccination programme update
• Accelerated Access to Records Programme update
• GP pressures
• Wes Streeting proposal to pay GPs more to allow patients to see the doctor of their choice
• Junior doctor re-ballot results
• England Conference of LMCs
• Best Practice Show
• Preparing for balloting on industrial action
• Wellbeing resources
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 22.08.23 including:

• Parliamentary activity
• 23/24 pay award guidance
• Cancer referrals
• Re-ballot for junior doctors strike action open for eligible GP trainees
• Reminder: For recently CCTed GP trainees to check that they get their back pay
• Relaunch of Return to Practice Programme​
• England Conference of LMCs
• Election for Chair of LMC UK Conference
• Safe working in general practice
• Preparing for balloting on industrial action
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 15.08.23 including:

• GPC England advice re: influenza and covid vaccination programmes
• GPC England officer team elections
• Sessional GPs committee officer and executive elections
• Sessional GPs Conference
• LMC England rep to GPC England
• DHSC delays permanent introduction of primary care doctors
• NHS Long Term Workforce Plan Summary
• GP Patient Survey 2023
• Health and Social Care Committee recommendations
• Changes to the NHS pension from April 2023 – Do they affect GP Federations?
• Retirement
• Access to healthcare for people seeking asylum in initial and contingency accommodation toolkit
• Safe working in general practice
• Preparing for balloting on industrial action
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 25.07.2023 including:

• Update from GPC England meeting
• Call to action and safe working in general practice
• Safe working – teaching GPs to be activists
• Preparing for balloting on industrial action
• Implementing a triage system in general practice
• DDRB pay recommendation and BMA response
• General practice responsibility in responding to private healthcare
• Measles warning
• GP trainee visa sponsorship
• Industrial Action and time out of training (TOOT) for GP trainees
• Sessional GPs conference
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 11.07.2023 including:

• ARM (Annual Representative Meeting) update
• Parliamentary activity
• Safe working and preparing for balloting on industrial action
• Advice to LMCs regarding preparatory activity relating to industrial action
• NHS Workforce long term plan
• GPs honoured
• Re-ballot for junior doctor strike action and important information re eligibility to vote
• BMA’s Patient liaison group member vacancies: could you help make a difference in healthcare?
• Wellbeing resources

CLMC Bulletin 27.06.2023 including:

• Validium
• Call to action for general practice 
• Safe working and preparing for balloting on industrial action 
• GP workforce figures 
• COVID therapeutics  
• PCN IIF capacity and access support payments – ICB templates for PCN ‘access improvement plans’ 
• Re-ballot for junior doctor strike action and important information re eligibility to vote 
• GPCE concerns about new health data deal for large multinational firm 
• Statement on “the primary care doctor” 
• 2023/24 PCN DES ready reckoner now available on NHSE website 
• Wellbeing resources GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices 

CLMC Bulletin 13.06.2023 including:

• BMA secures significant reduction in NHSPS service charge claims for practices
• Accelerated Access to Records
• Parliamentary activity
• Safe working and preparing for balloting on industrial action
• Junior doctors' and GP trainees strike action
• COVID therapeutics
• BMA member briefing on the GP delivery plan
• LMC UK Conference 2023
• Sessional GP Week 2023
• Sessional GPs Conference – Save the date
• NHS.net email for locums
• Our Future Health research programme
• Wellbeing resources

 CLMC Bulletin 30.05.2023 including:

• Change to complaints procedures
• Safe working and preparing for balloting on industrial action
• Workforce data
• BMA member briefing on the GP delivery plan
• Labour Party's NHS plan - Building an NHS fit for the future
• Annual flu letter
• Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism
• EMIS reverses panic button decision
• OpenSAFELY
• ARM 2023 - agenda
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 16.02.2023 including:

• Preparing for balloting on industrial action
• NHS England Primary Care recovery plan
• Meetings with minister and NHS England
• GP workload and safe working
• Wellbeing resources
• LMC UK Conference 2023 agenda
• GP seats at the BMA Annual Representatives Meeting
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 02.05.2023 including:

• GPs vote to take industrial action if ‘disastrous’ contract changes are not renegotiated  

• New GP access regulations 

• GP workload management and triage toolkit 

• Wellbeing and stress awareness month 

• Wellbeing resources 

• Improving access to OH assessments for small businesses 

• Nominations open for seats on the GPs committee via the LMC UK conference 

• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices 

CLMC Bulletin 18.04.2023 including:

• GP contract changes guidance
• Wellbeing and stress awareness month
• Wellbeing resources
• GP workload management and triage toolkit
• Exploring safe working in general practice: how we triage
• Junior doctors' and GP trainees strike action
• Nominations open for seats on the GPs committee via the LMC UK conference
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 535 - 04.04.2023 including:

• GP contract imposition
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub Newsletter
• Reminder of LMC Buying Group membership
• Junior doctors' and GP trainees strike action – new strike dates announced
• GP pressures
• General practice pay declaration: guidance
• Guidance on HRT Pre-Payment Certificate (PPC)
• Medical Examiners
• DWP Special Rules update
• Annual Conference of Representatives of LMCs (UK) 2023 – registration reminder
• Wellbeing
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC  Bulletin 534 - 21.03.2023 including:

• Reminder: 2023/24 GP contract update webinars
• Life time allowance scrapped
• Junior doctors' and GP trainees strike action
• Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill – Protect the right to strike
• Workforce returns – please report all hours that GPs work
• New to partnership scheme (N2PP)
• Wellbeing
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 533 - 07.03.2023 including:

• GP contract update
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub newsletter
• GP workload pressures and safe working guidance
• Junior doctors' strike action - guidance for GP trainees and GP practices
• GP trainee visas
• Wellbeing
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 532 - 21.02.2023 including:

• GP contract meeting with Minister O’Brien

• 2023/24 GP contract update webinars

• Junior doctors' ballot on strike action and guidance for GP trainees

• Working with Torture Survivors - an e-learning course for healthcare professionals

• Claiming for Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

• LMC Secretaries Conference

• Annual Conference of Representatives of LMCs (UK) 2023

• Wellbeing

CLMC Bulletin 531 - 07.02.2023 including:

• GPC England reject ‘unsafe and insulting’ contract offer
• GP workforce and workload pressures
• Support for Earthquake in Turkey and Syria
• Consultation on NHS Pension Scheme regulations for England and Wales
• Potential Ministry of Justice legal case
• Engagement with Primary Care Support England (PCSE), NHS England and NHS Pensions 
• NHS Pension Scheme Cost cap mechanism judicial review
• Annual Conference of Representatives of LMCs (UK) 2023
• Junior doctors' ballot on strike action – guidance and webinar for GP trainees
• Update on the Digital Firearms Flag
• GP Registration
• Wellbeing
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 530 - 24.01.2023 including:

• Backing the independent contractor Model
• Junior doctors' ballot on strike action - guidance and webinar for GP trainees
• Update on the Digital Firearms Flag
• Health Education England education contract
• Communication between DWP and GP practices
• LMC Secretaries Conference - Thursday 9 march 2023 - BMA House, London
• GPC Upcoming regional elections
• Wellbeing
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 529 - 17.01.2023 including:

• Validium
• GP Forum Study Days
• Best Practice London 2023

CLMC Bulletin 528 - 10.01.2023 including:

• Inflationary pressures
• GPC England New Year’s message
• Junior doctors’ ballot in England for strike action
• Junior doctors' guide to strike action - guidance for GP trainees
• GP Retention survey and focus groups
• Long covid survey
• Wellbeing
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices