CLMC Bulletins
CLMC Bulletin 493 21.12.21 including:
- Dear colleagues – A message from your GPC Chair
- Impact of COVID-19 omicron variant and vaccination deployment
- Fit Note extension period
- Prescription charge medical exemption certification
- Firearms licenses
- DVLA checks
- COVID vaccine exemptions
- Item of Service fee for vaccinations
- COVID-19 vaccination protocols and patient group directions
- Second phase for children and young people aged 12 to 15
- Vaccination as a condition for deployment in the healthcare sector
- Exemptions from self-isolation of fully vaccinated staff members identified as a contact of a case
- Prescription charge waiver for COVID-19 antivirals and therapeutic clinical trials
- Private provider requests for investigations under the NHS
- Firearms licensing guidance
- GMC State of Medical Education and Practice in the UK report
- Supportive messages about the role of general practice
- Accredited Wound Care Course for Registered Staff in Primary Care.
- GPC England executive team and new chair of GPC UK
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 492 14.12.21 including:
- Covid Boosters and Omicron
- Proof of vaccination for those age 12 and upwards
- Temporary GP contract changes to support Winter pressures and the COVID-19 Vaccination program
- Pandemic response – Plan B
- Moving vaccines within a PCN grouping
- Cause for Celebration and GP Santa Wishlist
- New to Partnership Payment Scheme (N2PP)
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub
- UK's most vulnerable people to receive life-saving COVID-19 treatments in the community
- LMC Buying Group
- Supporting general practice
- NHSE/I workforce staff survey development
- GPC GP Bulletin & Informal Messaging
- BMA COVID-19 guidance
- Mental health and wellbeing – looking after you and your practice team
CLMC Bulletin 491 07.12.21 including:
- Changes to QOF and IIF
- Additional funding for COVID vaccination programme – but more support is needed
- New COVID-19 Omicron variant – new measures and booster programme extension
- BMA report: Weathering the storm
- Joint statement on Inclisiran
- Integrated care systems – primary care
- LMC England conference 2021 - resolutions
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 490 - 30.11.21 including:
- LMC England conference 2021
- Health Select Committee inquiry into the future of general practice
- Supporting general practice against abuse
- Your wellbeing
- Updated infection control guidance (UK)
- TPP Patient access to records
- GP appointment data
- Updated PGD and national Protocols for COVID vaccination programme
- New interactive ESA 113
- Application process for the GPC England Executive Team
- Media
CLMC Bulletin 489 - 23.11.21 including:
- New Chair of GPC England
- GP earnings declaration
- COVID-19 vaccinations - Booster vaccination for over 40s and Second doses for 16 and 17-year olds
- COVID-19 vaccination for the housebound
- Vaccination Data Resolution Service (VDRS)
- Health Select Committee inquiry into the future of general practice
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub - Frailty Webinar, 2nd December, 2pm
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub – Webinar Understanding Trauma in Healthcare - Thursday 2nd December - Primary Care
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub - Invitation to Primary Care placement webinar Tuesday 7th December 2021
- Child and young adult wellbeing website for patients (includes information for pregnant ladies)
- Serious Shortage Protocol - atorvastatin 20mg chewable tablets
- BMA Law - Partnership Disputes Webinar, Tuesday 30 November, 1 – 2pm
- NHS Property Services – Direct Payments webinar, 10 December, 11am
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 488 - 16.11.21 including:
- GP earnings threshold
- COVID-19 vaccination - condition of deployment for health and social care workers
- COVID-19 vaccination fee increase for the housebound
- TPP access to records
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub: Nursing Clinical Supervision Opportunity
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub: GPN Fundamentals course
- North East & North Cumbria ICS Staff Wellbeing Hub
- Antibiotic prescribing by GPs in England has fallen
- Diabetes UK webinar - Diabetes and Kidney Care Seminar for healthcare professionals
- Curing the sickness in the system - understanding and eradicating bullying in the NHS – webinar
- BMA Webinar - The Health and Care Bill
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 487 - 09.11.21 including:
- BMA Indicative ballot of practices on potential action
- GP earnings threshold
- Response from the Secretary of State on the Government ‘access package’
- GPC England chair stepping down – message from Dr Richard Vautrey, outgoing GPC England Chair
- TPP access to records
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub Newsletter
- Supporting general practice against abuse
- Conference of England LMCs agenda
- BMA Virtual GP parliamentary drop in event
- NHS Confederation – an open letter to primary care
- New GP workforce data
- BMA COVID-19 data analysis
- BMA Private Practice Committee 2021 elections – GP representative (UK)
- BMA Webinar - The Health and Care Bill
- King’s College London brief survey into the management of IBS in primary care
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 486 - 02.11.21 including:
- BMA undertake an indicative ballot of practices on potential action
- Supporting general practice against abuse
- Cameron Fund Christmas Appeal
- GPDF Newsletter
- Tees Valley Training Hub opportunity: Pharmacy Educational Supervisor Training 2022 - Closing date Fri 31 Dec
- Research on providing annual health checks for autistic people
- BMA Webinar, BMA Members only - The Health and Care Bill
- GPC GP Bulletin
- GPC Sessional GP Newsletter
CLMC bulletin 485 - 26.10.21 including:
- Overwhelming rejection of government’s ‘rescue package’ including the current CLMC position
- Introducing CLMC Practice Quality and CQC Facilitator to support you
- Workload control in general practice
- Analysis of NHSE/I ‘rescue package’
- GP declaration of earnings guidance
- Supporting general practice against abuse
- Next steps for COVID vaccinations of 12 to 15 year olds
- Government COVID antiviral strategy
- COVID-19 medical exemptions
- Primary Care Fellowship Offers
- Management of IBS in primary care - survey
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC bulletin 484 - 19.10.21 including:
- Government’s ‘rescue package’ out of touch with GP crisis
- GPC analysis of NHSE/I package
- Your wellbeing
- Workload Control in General Practice
- Infection control recommendations for primary care
- New GP workforce data
- Supporting general practice against abuse
- Joint statement condemning abuse of healthcare staff
- Local Vaccination Services SOP update
- Light touch assurance process on third doses of Moderna for immunosuppressed patients
- COVID-19 Vaccination PGD and national protocol
- Flu vaccination guidance on accessing centrally supplied flu stock
- Health inequalities toolkit
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 483 - 12.10.21 including:
- Survey on General Practice response to the current crisis
- Support your surgery campaign
- GP Pay Transparency – NHSE/I Guidance
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub newsletter
- Extension of central PPE provision consultation
- GP appointment data
- COVID-19 Vaccination PGD and national protocol
- Mitigating the effect of dispensing fees cut
- Message from Diabetes UK – Helping patients get Active Conference
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 482 - 05.10.21 including:
- Tackling abuse and aggression towards GPs
- Consultant support for GPs
- Support your surgery campaign
- Boosters for health care staff
- Medical exemptions
- Vaccine Data Resolution Service (VDRS)
- Flu Vaccinations for primary care contractors and frontline staff
- NHS 111 Booking into general practice
- Medicines Delivery Service extension
- GP Recruitment Campaign 2021
- Tees Valley Training Hub: New Respiratory Surge in Children programme now available
- Restorative Just Culture Training Offer - 14 free places
- Learning/Sharing opportunity: READY Paramedics - A Review of Paramedics Working in General Practice, 14 October 2021, (am - 11.30am
- GPC GP Bulletin
- GPC Sessional GP Bulletin
- BMA COVID-19 guidance
- Mental Health and wellbeing - looking after you and your practice team
CLMC Bulletin 481 - 28.09.21 including:
- Tackling abuse and meeting with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
- Dealing with abuse of practice staff on social media from patients
- Media Intrusion
- Support your surgery campaign
- GPC UK meeting update
- Support for GPs
- COVID vaccinations
- Overprescribing report
- End of shielding programme and closure of the Shielded Patient List (SPL)
- Pension Deductions by PCSE
- LMC UK conference agenda committee elections
- GP Trainees committee chair
- Media
- Low Level Anxiety - Support Services
CLMC Bulletin 480 - 21.09.21 including:
- Protecting GPs from abuse and assault
- #Support Your Surgery campaign
- Letter to Secretary of State
- GP survey - deadline extended
- COVID vaccinations for 12-15 year olds
- Booster vaccines
- Recording overseas vaccinations
- Blood bottle supply update
- Covid-19 Response: Autumn and Winter Plan 2021
- End of the shielding programme and Closure of the Shielded Patient List (SPL)
- Health inequalities and climate change
- ARM update
- Changes to the COVID-19 test kit distribution service
- NHS-Galleri cancer test trial
- Supportive call from WHO for investment in primary care post COVID
- Survey of practices' experiences of using PCSE payments and pensions portal in August
- BMA Members Only: Sessional GPs webinar - contracts
- Social Prescribing Link Worker Day Conference
- GPC GP Bulletin
- BMA COVID-19 guidance
CLMC Bulletin 479 - 14.09.21 including:
- GP survey - help us to help you
- Support Your Surgery campaign
- Government imposes pay transparency regulations
- Uplift to maximum reimbursement rates under the Network Contract DES Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
- Supporting general practice and challenging abuse – letter to the Secretary of State
- NHS Digital GP workforce data releases switch to monthly from quarterly
- GP pressures and abuse in the media
- GPC England meeting with NHSE/I
- Delays in influenza vaccines
- Advice and Guidance – statement from GPC England
- Survey of practices' experiences of using PCSE payments and pensions portal in August
- LMC role in Integrated care systems
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub – ensure you are linked in!
- BMA Members Only: Sessional GPs webinar – contracts
- BMA clinical academic trainees conference 2021
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 478 - 07.09.21 including:
- GPC England and NHSE Negotiations
- #Support Your Surgery – GPC England campaign
- GP survey - help us to help you
- Blood bottle shortages
- Delays in influenza vaccines
- Updated advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on vaccination of children aged 12 to 15.
- JCVI advice on third dose vaccination for severely immunosuppressed
- Survey of practices' experiences of using PCSE payments and pensions portal in August
- Sessional GPs webinar – contracts
- Integrated Care Boards guidance
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 477 - 31.08.21 including:
- #Support Your Surgery – GPC England campaign
- Challenging media critics
- Blood bottle shortages
- Primary Care Networks – plans for 2021/22 and 2022/23 (England)
- GP survey – help us to help you
- Backlog of fitness to drive assessments
- Vaccinations for NHS staff entering care homes
- Appraisal fees (England)
- Sessional GPs webinar – contracts
- New Community Pharmacy Contract and Hypertension Case Finding
- Survey of GP practices' experiences of using PCSE payments and pensions portal in August
- Standards for Health and care records
- Media
- Vaccine Wastage
CLMC Bulletin 476 - 24.08.21 including:
- Becton Dickinson blood specimen collection supply disruption
- Supporting General Practice - letter from NHS England
- Support Your Surgery campaign
- Vaccinating 12-15 year olds with underlying health conditions
- Vaccinating 16-17 year olds by 23 August
- Spikevax vaccine (formerly COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna) for 12- to 17-year-olds
- New and updated COVID-19 National Protocols
- Updated PHE guidance on NHS staff self-isolation and return to work following COVID-19 contact
- BMA Annual Representatives Meeting
- HEE is looking to the future for the health and social care workforce
- GPC GP Bulletin
- GPC Sessional GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 475 - 17.08.21 including:
- BMA survey reveals worrying levels of abuse against doctors and staff
- Becton Dickinson blood specimen collection supply disruption
- National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021
- COVID-19 pandemic recovery workload prioritisation guidance
- Self-isolation removed for close contacts of those who are fully vaccinated
- Mandatory requirement for vaccinations to enter care homes
- BMA Infection control guidance
- COVID vaccination programme data
- Meeting with Amanda Pritchard, new CEO of NHS England and NHS Improvement
- Social Prescribing Link Worker Day Conference
- BMA Annual Representative Meeting 2021
CLMC Bulletin 474 - 10.08.21 including:
- Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme 2021/22 enhanced service specifications
- Vaccines for 16 and 17 year olds
- Workforce data concerns
- COVID-19 vaccines dashboard
- New NHS England chief executive
- NHS COVID-19 app updated to notify fewer contacts to isolate
- Weekly COVID-19 data
- Changes in visa sponsorship for trainee GPs
- Fit notes
- Appraisal payments
- Practices call for more PCN funding, support and autonomy
- Improving the NWRS (National Workforce Reporting Service)
- GP payments and pensions system update
- New President of RCGP
- Media - England
- GPC Newsletter
CLMC Bulletin 473 - 03.08.21 including:
- GP payments and pensions system provided by PCSE update
- GP appointment data demonstrates workload pressure
- RCGP report echoes BMA call to tackle general practice pressures
- Supporting general practice campaign
- FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Sunday 22 Aug Response Date North Cross-Sector Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician Places
- DDRB pay uplift
- GPDPR delay – joint statement and letter to GPs
- NHS Health Check refresher training – Zoom training, Tuesday 24 August, 9.30 – 11.30
- Guidance to support GP practices obtain a sponsorship licence
- Are you considering applying for a GP sponsorship licence to employ non-UK nationals?
- Improving the NWRS (National Workforce Reporting Service) Annual flu vaccination letter
- Releasing NHS staff from isolation to work
- Easing of COVID restrictions and infection control
- COVID - Vaccinating children
- Chief Midwife urges pregnant women to get NHS Covid Jab
- Vaccines and undocumented migrants – safe surgeries toolkit
- FCP/AP Roadmap Supervision and Verification Course
- New NHS England chief executive
- Delegation of NHS England commissioning functions to integrated care systems from April 2022
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 472 - 20.07.21 including:
- COVID-19 vaccination programme inc. Phase 3/Booster Enhanced Service
- Easing of COVID restrictions and face coverings
- Face coverings in healthcare settings in England
- Further delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme (GPDPR)
- Shocking workforce crisis exposed by BMA report
- Health and Care Bill briefing for general practice
- Medical examiners roll out
- Update on GPC England resolution
- Supporting general practice and latest appointment data
- Survey about CQC inspections and their effect on ethnic minority GPs
- Primary Care Fellowship Offers
- One career, endless opportunities #Choose GP
- Specialist and Professional Committee elections
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 471 - 13.07.21 including:
- Easing of COVID restrictions, including face coverings in health and social care settings
- Delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme (GPDPR)
- Preparing for CQC remote inspections
- New guidance for health and social care providers on CQC's monitoring approach
- COVID-19 booster vaccine and flu vaccine programmes
- PCSE pay and pension system update
- Patient survey results
- Health and Care Bill
- Praise for the NHS and general practice
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Education and training tariff guidance and prices for 2021 to 2022 financial year
- Review of the England Medical Performers List Regulations
- Calling all pharmacists: your chance to inform staff training in primary care
- One career, endless opportunities #Choose GP
- ARM elections – GPC UK
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Specialist and Professional Committee elections
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 470 - 06.07.21 including:
- Extension of the pandemic regulations
- JCVI and NHS/I guidance on COVID-19 booster vaccine programme
- Covid vaccine second doses
- Covid vaccine data
- Home delivery of medicines and appliances during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Improving the NWRS (National Workforce Reporting service) including webinar opportunity
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub Newsletter
- LAUNCH - NENC Primary Care Training Hub Webpage
- LAUNCH- New Roles in Primary Care Web Resource
- One career, endless opportunities #Choose GP
- ICS framework document
- NICE shared decision making guideline
- New Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
- Praise for general practice
- LMC Buying Group - Summer Update for LMCs
- BMA COVID-1 guidance
- GPC UK and GPC England committee pages
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 469 - 29.06.21 including:
- New PCSE pay and pension system update
- Delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme (GPDPR) including NHSE transparency notice
- Covid Vaccination exemptions for care workers
- Department of Health and Social Care draft data strategy
- Enhanced shared parental leave system for salaried GPs
- Contact your MP about punitive pension tax
- Meetings with Health Minister, Jo Churchill
- Meeting with the Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment, Nadhim Zahawi
- Cervical screening adverse incident
- IES Primary Care Workforce Wellbeing Survey
- Do you hold a GP sponsorship licence?
- RCGP report on relationship-based care
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- GPC UK and GPC England committee pages
- Specialist and Professional Committee elections
- GPC GP Bulletin
- GPC Sessional GP Bulletin
CLMC bulletin 468 - 22.06.21 including:
- New PCSE pay and pension system update
- Workload crisis
- GP appointment data
- Long-covid and weight management enhanced services
- Long COVID NHS plan for 2021/22
- PCN handbook
- Time to end NHSE/I directive letters
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme (GPDPR)
- BMA COVID-19 guidance
- Proposed changes to annual complaints collection (K041b form)
- Reminder: Deadline for THE EU SETTLEMENT Scheme – 30 June
- GPC UK and GPC England committee pages
- Specialist and Professional Committee elections
- BMA moral distress report launch
- Community Health and Wellbeing Worker at level 3 apprenticeship standard: demand scoping for employers
- Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) Occupational Health Awareness Week, 28 June – 2 July
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 467 - 15.06.21 including:
- Delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme (GPDPR)
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Extending the medical examiner into primary care
- New PCSE pay and pension system update GP registration for in/under-documented migrants
- PCN Funding
- Reminder - Pension guidance for retired doctors
- Fall in prescription items dispensed
- Reminder: Deadline for THE EU SETTLEMENT Scheme - 30 June
- BMA Specialist and Professional Committee elections
- BMA webinar: Board of science discussion event - Long Covid, 16th June 10.00am-12.30pm
- VWV Webinar: General practice - current and future issues update, 3pm 24 June 2021
- BMA Law Webinar: Mediation & Dispute Resolution, 29 June 1pm
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 466 - 08.06.21 including:
- Delay in roll-out of patient data sharing programme (GPDPR) for England
- New PCSE GP pay and pensions portal
- Deadline approaching for EU settlement scheme
- TNA (Trainee Nursing Associate) information webinars
- GP partners and practice managers sought for research on locum doctors
- NHS cervical screening management system to be introduced on 30 October
- Mask Exemptions for airline passengers in relation to COVID-19
- Spirometry
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 465 - 01.06.21 including:
- Unsustainable, unsafe, and unfair: General Practice in crisis
- BBC cover GP pressures
- Urgent meeting held with ministers to seek action to address pressures in general practice
- RCGP statement on NHS pressures
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- 15-minute observation period (Pfizer)
- Vaccine data
- Locum doctors in the NHS: understanding and improving the quality and safety of care
- New PCSE GP Pay and Pensions portal
- £120m COVID expansion fund - fair shares allocation per STP
- GP Data for Planning and Research
- Final Seniority Factors for 2017/18
- NHSEI review of urgent and emergency care standards
- Health inequalities toolkit – call for examples
- Cameron Fund – 10 top tips for financial wellbeing
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 464- 25.05.21 including:
- Vote of no confidence in NHS England leadership: GPC England Motion passed
- Online consultations – the contractual position
- 'If I die it will be your fault' campaign: supporting your teams
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Updated Enhanced Service Specification
- BMA media campaign ‘Spread the word, not the virus’
- Guidance for vaccination centres to ensure access to people with dependent children
- Storage of Pfizer vaccine
- Vaccine data
- COVID-19 data
- NHS Standard Contract 2021/22 – New “interface” provision
- GP Data for Planning and Research, legal direction
- Reminder: New GP Pay and Pensions system
- Primary care system development funding and GPIT funding guidance
- LMC UK Conference 2021
- Forced labour in international PPE supply chains through COVID-19 – issues and solutions
- GPC GP Bulletin
- GPC Sessional GP Bulletin
CLMC bulletin 463 - 18.05.21 including:
- Face-to-face appointments
- Online Consultations - Contractual Requirements
- LMC UK Conference 2021
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- COVID vaccine status
- Change to 2nd dose vaccination schedule
- Changes to National Booking Service (NBS) for pregnant women
- Vaccine data
- Multilingual versions of pulse oximetry patient video
- Referring patients with minor illness symptoms to a community pharmacist
- DPN for GP Data for planning and research (GPDPR), legal direction
- International Nurses Day
- New GP Pay and Pensions system
- GP Trainees Committee regional elections 2021
- Cameron Fund, Top Tips for Financial Wellbeing
- Home Office EU settled status webinar: Wednesday 26 May, 12-1pm
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 462 - 11.05.21 including:
- BMA survey – GP workload pressures
- Workforce data and GP pressures
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- JCVI announcement regarding AstraZeneca vaccine for people under 40
- Patients bringing babies or children to vaccination appointments
- Oversupply of PPE to vaccination centres
- Microsoft N365 licences will be allocated for Locum GPs
- Central procurement for Pneumovax®23 from 1 June 2021
- GP Trainees Committee regional elections 2021 – Please circulate to any Trainees you may have within your practice
- Your chance to inform staff training in primary care
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 461 - 04.05.21 including:
- GP appointment figures and workload pressures
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- New photographs show the people behind the national vaccination effort
- Weekly COVID-19 data
- Racism in primary care report
- Sir Simon Stevens to stand down as NHS England chief executive
- Domestic Abuse Bill receives Royal Assent
- Serious Shortage Protocol for Estradot
- Extension to the shingles immunisation programme
- Launch of framework for suppliers of digital services to general practice
- Appraisal 2020 survey
- Global health leaders back BMA call for urgent action as COVID crisis in India worsens
- Clare Wand Fund trustee elections
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 460 - 27.04.21 including:
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Second vaccinations
- Guidance on AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and very rare clotting disorders
- Vaccinating during pregnancy
- Vaccine dose data
- Weekly COVID-19 data
- PCV Hib MenC and Childhood 6 in 1 data collection for payment
- NHS Digital’s GP Collections website
- Improving General Practice appointment data (GPAD) webinars and demos
- Updated guidance for HGV medicals
- DWP Forms
- Maternal mental health
- New GP Pay and Pensions system
- 21/22 PA preceptorship primary care offer: NOW OPEN for applications
- GPC GP bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 459 - 20.04.21 including:
- Flu vaccination programme 21/22
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Vaccinating during Ramadan
- Vaccine dose data
- PRINCIPLE trial on COVID treatment
- GP Career Support Hub
- Call for swift action to remove GMC’s power to appeal tribunal decisions
- Weekly COVID-19 data update
- National e-Referral Service (e-RS) advice and guidance webinar
- GPC GP bulletin
- GPC Sessional GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 458 - 13.04.21 including:
- GMS/PMS regulations - pandemic amendments
- SFE and global sum calculation
- DES directions and flu immunisations
- Flu vaccination 20/21 achievement and plans for 2021/22
- Vaccinations and immunisations guidance
- Network Contract DES 2021/22 and improving general practice appointment data
- Improving GP appointment data
- NHS Standard Contract 2021/22 – New “interface” provision
- MHRA/JCVI and EMA statements on AZ vaccine
- Pinnacle now features reporting functionality
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Shielding for clinically extremely vulnerable to end
- Maximising vaccine uptake in underserved communities
- Vaccine certificates
- Vaccine dose data
- Community pharmacy pandemic delivery service
- Easing of restrictions and testing
- Free COVID-19 PPE scheme extended until the end of March 2022
- Access to vaccination for parents with children
- Weekly COVID-19 data update
- Salaried GPs vaccination reimbursement
- Delayed applications to New to practice partnership scheme
- New Roles in Primary Care Resource Updates - Version 4
- Race report BMA response
- BMA summary: NHS Planning Guidance 2021/22 and NHS Mandate 2021/22
- GPC Voting open for Durham and Cleveland regional elections
- Inspiring the female GP leaders of tomorrow
- Webinars: Circulated by the Primary Care Training Hub and provided by Nuffield Health
- GPC GP bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 457- 30.03.21 including:
- COVID-19 one year on
- Support for CCGs in addressing vaccine inequalities
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- COVID-19 vaccines and pregnancy
- Quality Assurance Framework and SOP for lateral flow devices for COVID-19 vaccination sites
- Vaccine dose data
- Medical assessments for prospective foster carer and adopters
- NHS Operational Planning and Contracting Guidance 2021/22
- Annual allowance voluntary scheme pays 201819 deadline extension
- BMA report on impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities
- GPC Voting open for Durham and Cleveland regional elections
- Investment in General Practice report and data quality statement 2015/16-2019/20
- BMA moral distress survey
- NHS Confederation Survey: ICS and the White Paper
- Webinars: Circulated by the Primary Care Training Hub and provided by Nuffield Health
- Mental Health and wellbeing - looking after you and your practice team
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 456 - 23.03.21 including:
- £120m additional funding for general practice
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Reduction of vaccine supply for April
- Deadline to opt out of second phase of the CVP
- MHRA confirms that people should continue to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine
- Vaccine dose data
- Ongoing support for general practice
- Shielding for clinically extremely vulnerable to end
- VAT removal for primary care
- General Medical Services (GMS) Ready Reckoner 2021/22
- Implementing the 2020/21 GP contract changes to personal medical services and alternative provider medical services contracts
- Overworked doctors must be allowed to rest and recover so we can keep patients safe, BMA warns
- Weekly COVID-19 data update
- Medicine Delivery Service
- Webinar: BMA Law, New GP Partners - What to Consider
- Training opportunity through Primary Care Training Hub: Video Group Consultations
- Webinars: Circulated by the Primary Care Training Hub and provided by Nuffield Health
- NHS Digital Research Session Request - NWRS (National Workforce Reporting System)
- GPC GP and Sessional GP bulletins
CLMC Bulletin 455 - 16.03.21 including:
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Guidance for QOF payments 2020/21
- Vaccination and Immunisation guidance
- Workload Prioritisation
- Locum income support
- Everyday sexism survey
- The latest BMA tracker survey showing gender disparity
- BMA briefs peers ahead of committee stage of Domestic Abuse Bill
- NHs Pensions scheme webinar for sessional GPS and locums
- School absence note requests
- Patients ordering PCR tests without symptoms
- Covid-19 Assisted Lateral Flow Device test results to GP records
- Discharge Medicines Service
- Managing environmental impact of prescribing webinar
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 454 09.03.21 including:
- Flu vaccination orders and reimbursement
- Amended QOF SFE 2020/21
- General Practice Fellowships Programme
- Vaccinating cohort 7 and Phase 2 of the Covid Vaccination Programme
- Vaccination deployment
- Improving social staff vaccination rates
- NHS Number and COVID vaccinations
- Vaccine dose data
- Health Secretary's message of thanks to GPs on pandemic effort
- Recruiting and maintaining your vaccination workforce
- Government Budget 2021
- Letter to Chancellor about funding in general practice
- Government evidence to DDRB
- Contract webinar 2021/22 recordings
- Navigating the NHS Pension Scheme for Sessionals
- New to Partnership Payment - Physician Associates
- Remote fit notes - please remember to sign them
- BMA Member Webinar - Proposed NHS Reforms and potential impact for the North East
- Senior female GPs Leadership webinar
- GP Retention Scheme webinar
- GPC Durham/Cleveland elections
- Mental health and wellbeing - looking after you and your practice team
- BMA COVID-19 guidance
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 453 02.03.21 including:
- Lockdown restrictions loosening
- GPC GMS Contract Webinar 2021/22
- COVID-19 Vaccination Programme
- Signposting patient to access Covid vaccinations via pharmacy
- Vaccinating people with a learning disability
- vaccinating people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI)
- COVID-19 Clinical Risk Assessment Tool (QCovid)
- Vaccinating those aged under 18
- Vaccination cohort 5
- Vaccination patients who are HIV positive
- Studies on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
- Updated BMA COVID-19 risk assessment tool
- Annual allowance repayment scheme 2019/20
- Medicine Delivery Service
- 21/22 Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) applications: NOW OPEN
- GPCC Durham/Cleveland elections
CLMC bulletin 452 23.02.21 including:
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Vaccinating cohorts 5 and 6
- National pool of Steward Volunteers
- COVID vaccination for healthcare workers
- Retired doctors – return to practice to support the pandemic effort
- Updated GMC guidance on prescribing
- BMA briefing on White Paper on NHS reform and Integrated Care Systems
- Protection for Healthcare workers
- NHSPS- service charges dispute
- GPDF: Advice note on Criminal Finances Act 2017 and Corporate Criminal Offences
- Lung cancer campaign launch
- NHS Discharge Medicines Service
- Online fit note research help
- GPC Durham/Cleveland elections
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub Newsletter
- Contract agreement 2021/22 webinar
- GP Retention Scheme Webinar
CLMC Bulletin 45116.02.21 including:
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- NENC ICS Vaccination Board - cohorts 5 & 6
- Vaccination of frontline health and social care workers
- Transport of Astra Zeneca vaccine to GP practices within the PCN Grouping
- Feeing up practices to support COVID -19 vaccination
- Green Book update in relation to Covid-19
- vaccine hesitancy
- Vaccine dose data
- February 2021 Screening and Immunisation bulletin - North East and North Cumbria
- Thank you from the Prime Minister
- Government White Paper on NHS reform and Integrated Care Systems
- Assessments carried out for detention under the mental health to take place in person
- Amendments to European Health Insurance cards (EHICs) and S1 forms (UK) Regulations
- GP Assistants wave 2 of the GP Assistants Programme
- Contract agreement 2021/22 webinar
- GP Retention Scheme Webinar
- Mental health and wellbeing - looking after you and your practice team
- BMA COVID-19 guidance
- GPC GP bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 450 10.02.21 including:
- Vaccination of JCVI cohorts 1-4
- National call/recall letters to Clinically Extremely Vulnerable people
- Movement of AstraZeneca vaccines
- IPC Bulletin for General Practice on 'Donning and doffing stations for PPE'
- Second Doses
- New vaccination information helpline and alternative point of care systems
- Vaccine doses data
- Contract agreement webinar for 2021/22
- Government backs BMA proposal to fix unlawful age discrimination of the NHS Pension scheme
- Flu Vaccine reimbursement 2021/22
- Staff with long COVID
- Freedom of Information requests for practices' Gifts and Hospitality register
- SSP for levothyroxine 12.5 mcg tablets
- Bame forum launch
- GP Retention Scheme Webinar
- GPC UK regional elections
- mental health and wellbeing - looking after you and your practice team
- BMA Covid-19 guidance
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 449 02.02.21 including:
- Contract agreement for 2021/22
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Vaccination of healthcare workers
- Vaccine wastage
- Second doses
- Legal advice note commissioned by GPDF on Covid-19 vaccination programme
- IT issues
- Transfer of vaccines
- Care Homes
- Update PCN Vaccine planning and progress tracking tool
- Coronavirus vaccination figures
- CQC activity in Primary Care
- New to Partnership Scheme
- Skilled worker/tier 2 status registrars
- NHS Pension Scheme Access for ARRS staff
- GP appointment data
- GP referrals into CPCS
- Face to Face Vaccination Training Offer - North East and North Cumbria
- Health & Wellbeing Coaches Workshop - NENC
- GP Retention Scheme Webinar
- Healthwatch South Tees Star Awards 2021
- GPC regional elections
- Mental health and wellbeing - look after you and your practice team
- BMA COVID-19 guidance
- GPC GP Bulletin
CLMC Bulletin 448 26/01/2021 including:
- Contract agreement for 2021/22
- PCN DES ballot results
- PM praises GPs
- Tees Locum Support Forum
- COVID-19 vaccination programme
- Securing enhanced and suitable PPE
- BMA joins calls for emergency legislation to protect medics from 'unlawful killing' cases
- Judicial Review against Northamptonshire safeguarding partners (safeguarding fees)
- Payments during suspension - SoS Determination
- LMC England Conference resolutions
- GPC regional elections
- Meeting on public health restructuring for public health doctors working outside of PHE
CLMC Bulletin 447 19/01/2021 including:
- Additional funding to support rapid care home vaccination
- Vaccine rollout and mass vaccination centres
- Vaccination of healthcare workers
- Change in legislation to allow any GMC registered doctor to administer the COVID-vaccine in primary care settings
- COVID-19 vaccinations programme guidance
- Supporting doctors throughout the second COVID-19 wave
- Workload prioritisation: Level 4 or 5
- Update on CQC’s regulatory approach
- Guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) patients
- COVID PPE scheme extended until June 2021
- Lateral flow test ordering
- Pulse oximetry guidance update
- Pre-registration for offenders leaving prison
- NHSE/I legislative proposals on Integrated Care Systems
- Fit notes (med 3)
- Tees Valley Primary Care Training Hub - General Practice opportunities
CLMC Bulletin 446 12/01/2021 including:
- National lockdown, workload prioritisation and vaccination of healthcare professionals
- COVID-10 vaccinations programmes
- Home delivery of medicines and appliances
- Vote on future negotiations on the PCN DES
- PCN Clinical Director Survey Results
- Lloyd George envelope digitisation project
- BMA Law Partnership Webinar
- GPDF response to ICS Consultation
- Domestic abuse letters
- THE GP International Induction and Return to Practice Programme
- Mental health and wellbeng - looking after you and your practice team
- GP appraisal leads and GP tutors offer of telephone support conversations
- Crisis Coaching & Mentoring
- GPC GP Bulletin