2022 Bulletins

CLMC Bulletin 527 - 20.12.22 including:

• GP Pressures
• Advice to colleagues and practices on strike action being undertaken across the NHS
• Junior doctors' guide to strike action - guidance for GP trainees
• Streptococcus A
• Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism - update
• LMC England Conference 2022
• Cameron Fund Christmas Appeal 2022
• Long covid survey
• Autumn statement 2022
• Pooled code practices warned to check for significant reimbursement shortfalls
• Wellbeing
• GP England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 526 - 06.12.22 including:

• The Practitioner Health Wellbeing app
• GPC England Officer team update 
• Accelerated citizen access to GP records - mass roll-out halted
• GP appointment and workforce data
• Autumn statement 2022
• Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism
• GP Trainee visas
• Pooled code practices warned to check for significant reimbursement shortfalls
• CQC work in general practice
• Wellbeing
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices 

CLMC bulletin 525 - 29.11.22 including:

• Accelerated citizen access to GP records - mass roll out halted
• CLMC parkrun meet up
• Sugarman - Needlestick services
• Validium
• Self-Wellbeing Hub - Cost of living resources for staff from NHS national Health & Wellbeing team
• Mental health and wellbeing - looking after you and your team

CLMC Bulletin 524 - 22.11.22 including:

• GP workforce shortages
• Appointment data at practice level
• Wellbeing
• GMS and PMS requirement to pass on DDRB recommended uplifts
• Updated webpages regarding travel with medications
• Health Education England training contract
• Proposed Dispensing Feescales for GMS Contractors, England and Wales - 2021, October release
• CQC clinical searches – new survey
• Support in challenging times – share your views
• LMC England conference 2022

CLMC Bulletin 523 - 08.11.22 including:

• Accelerated citizen access to records 

• GPC England meeting update

• Snapshot Survey

• Wellbeing

• Network Contract DES guidance – pay codes updated for 1^st November

• NHS Property Services settlement letters

• Punitive pensions tax rules

• Trust Registration Requirements

• LMC England conference 2022

• Read the sessional GPs newsletter here 

CLMC Bulletin 522- 25.10.22 including: 

• Crisis in General Practice  
• Citizens access to records programme
• Survey on how inflation and energy costs are impacting your practice
• Seasonal Flu payments
• Letter from GP for travel with medication
• PCN DES opt out window
• Concerns about the delivery of anti-viral drug treatment for covid 
• Wellbeing

CLMC Bulletin 521 - 11.10.22 including:

• General practice in crisis
• Mental health and wellbeing
• PCN DES opt out window
• Survey on how inflation and energy costs are impacting your practice
• Citizen access to records programme
• Updated Flu specification
• NHSE vaccination strategy consultation
• Proposed repeal of the IR35 tax reforms
• Best Practice Show
• Music Video – A tribute to the NHS

CLMC Bulletin 520 - 27.09.22 including: 

• GPC England meeting

• GP pressures

• Workload and wellbeing

• Validium

• PCN DES question

• Vaccines and Immunisations

• Email your MP to solve the NHS pension crisis

• Advice for managing long COVID with GP staff

• Three ways the BMA can support GPs managing HR issues

• Best Practice Show

CLMC Bulletin 519 - 20.09.22 including:

• • Best Practice Show, 12-13 October 2022, NEC Birmingham
  • Daisy Chain virtual Information Sessions for professionals.
  • Updated stakeholder briefing - NHS integrated urgent care proposals - Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland
  • Mental health and wellbeing – looking after you and your practice team

CLMC Bulletin 518 - 13.09.22 including:

• Wellbeing resources
• NHSE/I Autumn Care Home COVID-19 Vaccination Programme
• Digital Firearms Marker
• GP premises update
• Inflation and your practice
• Accelerating citizen access to records
• Health and Social Care Select Committee's Workforce report briefing
• Understanding more about the experience of International Medical Graduate GPs
• DHSC Medicines Supply Tool
• Best Practice Show
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 517 - 30.08.22 including:

• GPC England Officer Team election
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub newsletter
• Validium: The Healthy Almanac Toolkit - September 2022
• GP workload and workforce
• COVID Booster
• New Flu Enhanced Service Specifications and Flu Collaboration Agreement
• Government’s reported plan for GPs to prescribe heating bill discounts is 'beggars belief'
• Social prescription trial on walking and cycling
• GP ‘bureaucracy busting concordat’
• PCNs – clarification on CQC registration
• Trust registration requirements
• Section 49 report guidance
• Research priority setting with the General Practice Workforce Survey
• Best Practice Show, 12-13 October 2022, NEC Birmingham
• England Conference of LMCs 2022
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 516 - 23.08.22 including:

• Trust Registration Requirements
• Tees Valley Daisy Chain Family Support Service
• GPDF Annual Report and Financial Statement 2021
• Mental health and wellbeing

CLMC Bulletin 515 - 16.08.22 including:

• GP Wellbeing
• Abuse faced by Tees general practice teams and training for frontline primary care staff
• Patient Lists
• Pay Transparency update
• Changes to COVID-19 Vaccination ES (Phase 5)
• Polio vaccine – London
• Best Practice Show, 12-13 October 2022, NEC Birmingham

CLMC Bulletin 514 - 02.08.22 including:

• Cameron Fund Video
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub Newsletter
• BMA Pensions
• GPC England meeting update
• Join the GPC England Officer Team
• DDRB announement
• Validium: The Healthy Almanac Toolkit - August 2022 - back to Nature
• Workforce
• Amending the Road Traffic Act 1988 
• GP Patient Survey
• Unagreed 2022/23 PCN DES requirements
• Flu Vaccines
• Investigation of deaths in the community/Primary Care - Virtual Conference 28 September 2022
• Best Practice Show, 12-13 October 2022, NEC Birmingham
• COVID 19 vaccination and other immunisation / vaccination deployment models
• Press Release re emergency motion
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 513 - 19.07.22 including:

• Rising covid cases and pressures on health services 
• New Sessional GPs co-chairs
• Rise in GP appointments
• Firearms marker in England
• Certifying fit notes
• Introduction of ICSs
• PCN DES opt out window
• Inclisiran
• Pensions Committee – MP roundtable event and debate
• National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021
• Medical Women Podcast
• BMA committee elections
• GPC England committee pages and guidance for practices

CLMC Bulletin 512 - 12.07.22 including:

• Firearms marker
• Tees Valley ICP stakeholder event for the Flexible Apprenticeship Scheme
• Staff Wellbeing Hub - Cost of living resources for staff from NHS national Health & Wellbeing team
• Rebuild General Practice Toolkit – Mythbusting!

CLMC Bulletin 511 - 05.07.22 including:

• ARM 2022
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub newsletter
• Important FREE Training, Breakaway training
• NHSE Primary Care Policy and Guidance Manual updates, including template zero tolerance policies and warning letters for inappropriate patient behaviour
• Fees calculator
• Letter from GP for travel with medication
• Fit note update
• CVD enhanced service specification
• Warning over GPs leaving NHS
• Rebuild General Practice: support the campaign
• Access to GP Services – House of Commons debate
• BMA calls for independent review of the GMC referral pathway
• New BMA Council Chair
• Validium and supportive documents July 2022
• Healthwatch South Tees Annual Reports
• Committee of Medical Managers (CMM) elections
• BMA Employer Advisory Service

CLMC Bulletin 510 - 21.06.22 including:

• Update on NHS Property Services (NHSPS) legal case
• Risk assessment for practices
• GP abuse
• Rebuild General Practice: 3 ways to show your support
• Accelerated access to patient records
• Monkeypox
• Fit Notes
• Promoting Healthier Together
• Initial Health Assessment services in support of new arrivals from Ukraine
• Safe Surgeries Evaluation Survey - Regional
• One career, endless opportunities #Choose GP
• HEE launches new Work Experience Standard
• BMA request for case studies: innovative delivery in General Practice
• BMA annual representative meeting 2022
• GPC ARM elections
• BMA Employer Advisory Service

GPC Update to LMCs - 07.06.22 including:

• LMC UK conference 2022
• Rebuild General Practice: support the campaign
• Delayed contractual changes for deceased patient records
• Medical exemption service
• Navigating the GP sponsorship process webinar
• GP training needs reform: the status quo isn't working for anyone
• Improvements to benefit eligibility at the end of life
• GPC ARM elections

CLMC Bulletin 509 - 31.05.22 including:

• BMA launches pensions tool for GPs to help navigate unfair inflation calculations
• Important ICB Opportunity - ICB Partner Member Positions for Primary Care Application Information - deadline 7 June
• Rebuild General Practice: Parliamentary Drop in Event – get involved in the promotion!
• UK LMC Conference - Resolution and election results
• Validium and supportive documents June 2022
• Tell NHSE how you are – primary care wellbeing survey
• Urgent & Emergency Care Learning Disability Webinar

CLMC Bulletin 508 - 24.05.22 including: 

• GPC England Update
• Rebuild General Practice: support the campaign
• Navigating the GP sponsorship process webinar
• GP training needs reform: the status quo isn't working for anyone
• Preceptorship to support ARRS roles within Primary Care
• Healthier Together | Home (nenc-healthiertogether.nhs.uk)
• Annual health checks to patients aged 14 years or over on the learning disabilities register
• The GP Learning Disability Register (GPLDR)
• Improvements to benefit eligibility at the end of life
• Medical exemption service
• LMC UK conference 2022
• Delayed contractual changes for deceased patient records
• New digital GP Contract requirements and guidance to support GP practices
• South Tees Adult Hearing Services Consultation
• Shape the future of GP data sharing 

CLMC Bulletin 507 - 10.05.22 including:

• Message from GPC re Clarification on PCN DES
• GP workforce and appointment data
• Becoming a UK visa sponsoring practice – webinar
• What is your diagnosis for general practice? #RebuildGP
• GP abuse
• General Practice Pay Transparency
• Health and Care Bill becoming an Act
• Validium and supportive documents May 2022
• GPFR pilot
• Latest Cameron Fund Video
• Medico Legal Conference - Thursday 7 July, BMA House, London

CLMC Bulletin 506 - 26.04.22 including:

• PCN DES
• GP workforce data
• It’s time to rebuild general practice: support the campaign
• Join our campaign for fair pay
• Infection Prevention Control in healthcare settings
• Arrivals from Ukraine: advice for primary care
• National flu immunisation programme 2022/23
• LMC UK conference 2022
• LMC UK Conference elections to GPC UK 2022-23
• GP Trainees Committee - Elections Open
• LMCs – change of details

CLMC Bulletin 505 - 12.04.22 including:   

• Rebuild general practice campaign
• British Social Attitudes Survey
• GP contract and safe working guidance
• Tees Valley Easter Pharmacy Opening Hours
• Changes to COVID-19 testing for health and social care staff
• Death certification and cremation forms
• Gender dysphoria guidance
• NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme
• Improvements to benefit eligibility at the end of life
• DWP change to fit note – from 6 April 2022
• Health and Social Care Bill

CLMC Bulletin 504 - 05.04.22 including:

• GP contract 22/23 – guidance for practices
• GPC GP contract 22/23 Webinars
• General Practice Pay Transparency – delay until 30 April 22
• Reminder – Workforce Data Submission Deadline – 30 April 2022
• Compliance with the national data opt-out policy – delay until 31 July 2022
• Gender incongruence in primary care and statement on commissioning
• Ramadan
• Rebuild General Practice
• Covid Testing- NHSE Update
• ICB and Patient and Public Involvement – requesting feedback by Thursday 14 April
• Validium and supportive documents April 2022
• Latest Cameron Fund Video

CLMC Bulletin 503 - 29.03.22 including:

• GP contract changes guidance 
• Rebuild general practice campaign launch 
• Future of general practice - Health Select Committee evidence 
• Safe working guidance 
• MCCD and death certification 
• Health foundation report on access to general practice 
• GP to patient ratio 
• Infection Prevention Control in healthcare settings 
• New policy for applications to the Performers Lists 
• Friends and Family Test  
• Emergency GMC registration to end in September 
• Flu orders 
• Fit Notes 
• GP and LMC Representation in ICSs 
• Uyghur crisis educational webinar 

CLMC Bulletin 502 - 15.03.22 including:   

• GP contract negotiations and future of general practice
• GP contract 22/23 – guidance for practices
• Safe working in general practice
• Meeting with Secretary of State and NHS health care reforms
• Policy Exchange report on the future of general practice
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub Newsletter
• Training post shortage - Offer of support to establish additional posts for GP Trainees in Primary care settings, Deadline 24 March
• GPCE executive team changes
• Data on the pressures facing general practice
• BMA successfully challenges threatening letters from solicitors
• NHSPS service charges dispute update - trial dates
• Kings Fund report on Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS)
• Guidance for 2022/23 seasonal flu vaccination programme
• Mandatory vaccinations for healthcare staff to be revoked
• Pneumococcal vaccine claims
• Smoking Cessation service
• Sessional GPs committee regional elections

CLMC Bulletin 501 - 01.03.22 including:

• Update on 2022/23 GP contract negotiations
• Lifting COVID restrictions and infection control
• GP Fellowships
• Important reminder NENC Primary Care Training Hub: Training Needs Analysis - Non-Medical General Practice Workforce
• NHS Elective Recovery Plan
• Supporting people on waitlists - NHSE 'my Planned Care' public platform now live
• patient access to records
• Ordering DWP leaflets
• COVID-19 vaccinations for all 5-11 year olds
• Next steps for vaccination programme
• GP pressures
• Fuller Stocktake
• New NHSE Campaign - early cancer diagnosis
• Validium and supportive documents March 2022
• The Cameron Fund - latest video
• GPC GP & Sessional GP Bulletin & Informal Messaging
• BMA COVID-19 guidance
• Mental Health and wellbeing - looking after you and your practice team

CLMC Bulletin 500 - 15.02.22 including:

• Calls on Government to begin negotiations for revised fit-for-purpose GP contract
• Interpretation Services – Language Empire Services
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub - Workforce Development Webinars
• Home Oxygen Order Form (HOOF)
• Infection prevention control and risk assessments
• Vaccination as a condition of deployment (VCOD) - what are your responsibilities now?
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub - 22/23 ACP applications: NOW OPEN
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub – Primary Care Training Hub Knowledge and Library Hub
• Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub – Newsletter
• Pension tax seminars
• New to Partnership Payment Scheme Evaluation
• GP workforce data
• Transfer of Care – Acute Inpatient Discharge Standard
• 2019/20 Pensions Annual Allowance Charge Compensation Policy

CLMC Bulletin 499 - 08.02.22 including:

• Update on legislation requiring vaccination as a condition of deployment
• Update to CVP Enhanced Service
• Digital NHS COVID Pass is now available to children aged 12 to 15
• Winter Access Fund advanced telephony goes live
• How can GPs effectively care for patients with long-term conditions in the current climate?
• NENC Primary Care Training Hub: Training Needs Analysis - Non-Medical General Practice Workforce - 2022/23
• HEE Trainee Pharmacist in General Practice Programme National Recruitment 2022 (2023 intake)
• ICS North East and North Cumbria - Engagement Principles Survey, deadline extended to 3.30pm 28 February 2022
• Validium and supportive documents February 2022

CLMC Bulletin 498 - 01.02.22 including:  

• GP pressures and GP appointment data
• Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations – guidance for GPs and practices
• Fit testing of FFP2 and FFP3 respirators
• Face coverings in practice premises
• Healthwatch Dentistry Mythbuster
• Health and Social Care Bill - #WrongBillWrongTime
• PCN DES - Examples of good practice
• How can GPs effectively care for patients with long-term conditions in the current climate?
• Cameron Fund Video

CLMC Bulletin 497 - 25.01.22 including:

• Mandatory vaccinations FAQs for GPs and practices
• North East and Yorkshire Webinar FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS: Fertility, Pregnancy and Vaccination – your questions and concerns answered - Wednesday 26 January 2022 5:30pm – 6:30pm
• Extension of free PPE to the health and care sector
• Face coverings in practice premises
• Guidance on COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control for GP practices
• Vaccinating 12-17 year olds at risk
• Extending the post-thaw expiry date of specific batches of Comirnaty® (30 microgram/dose)
• Updated PGD and National Protocol for Spikevax (Moderna)
• Changes to MCCDs
• National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021
• Medicines Supply Tool
• Global vaccine equity
• CQC report into ethnic minority-led GP practices’ experiences of CQC regulation
• Primary Care Coaching - Looking After You - Comms Toolkit
• National Conference: Male Domestic Abuse Tuesday 8th February 2022 (9.30am –13.00pm) & Wednesday 9th February 2022 (9.30am –13.00pm)

CLMC Bulletin 496 - 18.01.22 including:

• Respiratory Protective Equipment, risk assessments, and provision of respirators
• Impact of Omicron on service provision and workforce
• Requirement for COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment 
• Capacity constraints in general practice
• Reminder: reporting staff sickness absence 
• COVID-19 vaccination programme
• Confirmatory PCR tests temporarily suspended for positive lateral flow test results
• Private COVID tests and proof of previous positive result
• 2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance
• GP contracts and variation notices
• Fit notes for Statutory Sick Pay purposes recommence 27 January
• Medicines Supply Tool
• GP practice sponsorship process
• Validium and supportive documents

CLMC Bulletin 495 - 11.01.22 including: 

• Next steps for general practice in 2022
• Protecting yourself
• Reporting COVID-19 outbreaks and staffing pressures in General Practice
• Self-isolation and access to PCR and lateral flow tests
• Combined paediatric and adult respiratory clinical assessment services hubs (RCAS)
• NHSEI Guidance on assessment of COVID 19 patients in General Practice
• Pulse Oximetry @ Home
• Virtual Wards and Hospital @ Home
• New COVID-19 treatments
• Hospital discharge and support for general practice and community care
• DHSC’s requirement for vaccination as a condition of employment
• CQC Inspections
• Healthwatch South Tees STAR Awards
• New Year’s Honours GPC GP and Sessional GP Bulletin

CLMC Bulletin 494 - 04.01.22 including:

• GPC ‘Dear Colleagues’ Update Position (as of 30 December)
• Protecting yourself
• Reporting COVID-19 outbreaks and staffing pressures in General Practice
• Lateral Flow test and isolation period
• Combined Paediatric and Adult Respiratory clinical assessment services hubs (RCAS)
• New COVID-19 Treatments
• Pulse Oximetry @ Home
• Virtual Wards and Hospital @ Home
• (Updated!) Season’s  New Year/2021 wrap up greetings from GPC England executive team
• NHS pressures and joint workload prioritisation guidance
• Infection prevention control guidance
• Expression of thanks from the UK CMOs
• Amendments to the Enhanced Service Specification for Phase 3
• Extension of eligible cohort to include those aged 16 and over
• Second dose for 12-15 year olds
• Responding to vaccination data queries
• Recording overseas vaccinations in the National Booking Service
• COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use by children aged 5 to 11
• Updates to the Network Contract DES
• PCSE patient list validation requests
• Application window for 2019/20 Pensions Annual Allowance Charge Compensation Policy
• New annual leave guidance for employers of salaried GPs
• GPC GP and Sessional GP Bulletin