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 1st 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