Bulletins

CLMC Bulletin 446 - 23.12.20 including:

• Increased fee for COVID-19 vaccination for care home residents and staff 
• Staffing support to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to care home residents and staff 
• COVID-19 vaccination programme SOP 
• 6th dose of the COVID-19 vaccine 
• Transfer of vaccination information 
• Providing vaccinations to patients registered at practices not participating in the enhanced service 
• COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedure
• Communications to Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) individuals in Tier 4 
• Home delivery of medicines service commissioned 
• COVID vaccination delivery for CEV patients in Tier 4 
• Access service arrangements 
• Post payment verification for DHSC flu vaccination 
• Responding to NHSEI ICS consultation 
• BMA Covid Tracker survey 
• CQC DNACPR review 
• Thank you video message

CLMC Bulletin 445 - 22.12.20 including:

• COVID-19 vaccination programme (CVP) national guidance (CLMC provided specific legal advice on the generic Collaboration Agreement document via email on Friday to all GPs and PMs). As always this area of work is fast moving so the information is as out of date as quickly as it is written. Please ensure you keep up to date via the NHSE, PHE and GPC websites.
• Patient videos in different languages for COVID-19 vaccination programme
• Reimbursement of additional PPE costs
• Supporting General Practice – additional £150 million of funding  (please see note below for local position)
• Lateral flow antigen testing in primary care
• Upcoming vote on future negotiations on the PCN DES
• AISMA and ICAEW joint statement about account issues for PCNs
• New portal for PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme claims
• BMA and RCGP statement on ‘Cancard’
• Falsified Medicines Directive update
• EU Exit: Medicines Supply in Primary Care - Joint statement by the BMA and PSNC
• Support for University Practices
• Gender Pay Gap in Medicine Review 
• Launch of the Institute of General Practice Management (UK)
• Message from Richard Vautrey, GPC Chair

CLMC Bulletin 444 -15.12.20 including:

• COVID-19 vaccination programme (CVP) national guidance (CLMC provided specific legal advice on the generic Collaboration Agreement document via email on Friday to all GPs and PMs). As always this area of work is fast moving so the information is as out of date as quickly as it is written. Please ensure you keep up to date via the NHSE, PHE and GPC websites.
• University of Oxford / AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trial data
• Ethnicity data
• 2019/20 annual allowance charge compensation scheme
• Christmas parties and gifts – accountancy advice
• Medical Aid Films community language COVID-19 resources
• EU Exit update – medicines supply continuity letter
• Workforce data reminder
• Investment and Impact Fund 2020/21 – reminder to sign up to PCN CQRS service

CLMC Bulletin 443- 08.12.20 including:

• COVID-19 vaccination programme (CVP) national guidance (CLMC 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. We have also issued specific advice on the Enhanced Service Contract and are currently exploring specific legal advice on the generic Collaboration Agreement document)
• COVID-19 Vaccination Collaboration Agreement (including call for interest in receiving generic legal advice via CLMC)
• PHE Guidance for healthcare professionals delivering the COVID-19 vaccine
• GPC guidance on the COVID-19 vaccine programme
• Accessing your GP animation 
• Christmas and New Year period
• Guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people
• GP trainees mileage payment 
• Institute of General Practice Management
• Integrated Care Systems consultation
• Conference of England LMCs 2020
• CQC review of the use of do not resuscitate decisions during COVID-19 
• Cameron Fund Christmas Appeal
• Parental leave webinar and workshop 

CLMC Bulletin 442 - 01.12.20 including:

• COVID-19 vaccination programme (CVP) national guidance (CLMC 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)
• COVID-19 winter plan and exiting lockdown
• Guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people 
• Local funding protection – template letter for LMCs
• Integrated Care Systems consultation
• RCGP call for suspension of GP appraisal during the Covid-19 pandemic 
• GP trainees mileage payment 
• QOF system suppliers update
• Community Infection Prevention and Control Update
• Over 50s Alcohol Helpline
• 2020 Conference of England LMCs   - LMC Conference Motion Outcomes
• GMC State of medical education and practice in the UK 
• GP appointment data
• Government spending review 
• COVID-19 select committee: digitalisation of physical health services and impact on wellbeing 
• Parental leave webinar and workshop 

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