Previous years Newsletters
Dec 07 - Defending government onslaught on GPs; extended opening hours; MH capacity act contact advocate; pandemic flu; minor surgery for one's own patients; LMC 2008 elections; partnership agreements; 0844 numbers and LMC office over Christmas.
Nov 07 - New LMC website launch; Darzi report; extended opening hours; C&B; pensions; MH; release of medical reports and HPV immunisations.
Oct 07 - Local issues; reporting clinical governance issues; NHS choices; personal demographic service; Gross investment guarantee report; interpreting service for non English speaking patients; registration of new patients and drugs misuse and dependence.
Sept 07 - Extended opening; 0844 numbers; GPSOC; Gardaisil; repeat prescriptions; overseas patients and A&E nurse triage.
July 07 - GPs time: homely remedies; mental capacity act 2005; practice visits; unpaid pensions and Max's musings.
June 07 - LMC conference feedback; appointment of Lay Secretary; negotiations; Chlamydia; MH discharges into community; emergency care practitioners; meeting constituents; Sessional GP appraisals; collaborative arrangements; CPD payments and continuing care.
May 07 - Appointment of Lay Secretary; political spin and the government machine; DES; PBC incentive scheme and GTT (glucose tolerance testing).
April 07 - Outline of GPC and LMCs meeting held in London; staff shortages in LMC office and VAT.
March 07 - DDRB decision; celebrating success on appraisal and discretionary payments; departure of Lay Secretary; premises; formula review; prescribing and Education & Training for Antenatal & Newborn Screening Programme.
February 07 - Executive team member announcement; charging patients; TB; VAT; partnership and collaborative arrangements and The GMC consultation on writing references and acting as an Expert Witness.
January 07 - GP pay; negotiations update; appraisal funding and discretionary payments; Choose and Book – appointment cancellation; changes in Adult Mental Health Services; The National Spine; patient experience surveys; GP Returners; seniority payments; recording employers pension contributions; disability equality schemes; access to NHS Dentistry and disability living allowance.
January 06 - Medical Secretary stands down; PBC; medical care practitioners (MCPs); agenda for change; nGMS and LMC newsletter evaluation.
February 06 - PBC; White paper and controlled drugs.
April 06 - Appraiser funding; what's happening in the NHS?; private sector; poly clinics; expected deaths and IT.
May 06 - Appraiser funding and locum reimbursement; NHS CRS; PACS; Lighter life; IM&T DES and flu pandemic.
June 06 - Appointment of Lay Secretary; performing rights; social enterprise; global sum and overseas visitors.
July 06 - LMC - what we've been doing in light of PCT ceasing appraisal/locum-re-imbursement funding; QoF; GPsWI - can they save money?; pneumococcal vaccinations; premises; look after your locum/Sessional GP; targeted insurance; charging for OH reports and changes to controlled drugs management.
September 06 - New LMC members; appraisals, LMC/PCT negotiations; collaborative care; complaints; C&B; representing GP trainers; CRES; nGMS and IT and identifying services that should not be provided by GPs.
December 06 - Appraisal; pension dynamisation; patient experience survey; excessive prescribing; out of Hours follow-up arrangements; 28 Day prescribing; PBC; adult mental health; E Mails; electronic discharge project; C&B and disability equality duty.
January 05 - DPA & freedom of information; OOH's; PBC; copying patient letters; LMC Manager resignation; visual testing; cancer management and support Panel.
February 05 - NHS pensions; C&B; QMAS; community hospital Contracts; appraisal form; exception reporting; Oxford hip scoring; enhanced services floor; information governance; mumps and salivary testing and meeting with SS.
April 05 - Confirmation & certification of death; QoF dispute resolution; diagnostic test results; superannuation “keep back”; health club advice; spot checks; MMR II; OOH; GPC Sessional GP Subcommittee elections and PMS representatives.
May 05 - C&B; QoF & freedom of information; dealing with Death OOH; taser stun gun; overseas visitors; community hospitals; self sickness certification; health visitors and support panel.
June 05 -
BMA conference; occupational
health; funding of Sessional GP
appraisals; hepatitis B immunisation; learning disability patients; appointment
of LMC Manager; downs dementia pathway; PGEA payments; patient letters; global
sum; BMA and ABI reach agreement on
fees for GP reports and M category drugs.
July 05 - PBC SWOT analysis; new OOHs centre at GRH; MMR; new LMC Chair; MRSA; category M drugs and Pharmacy Contract; sickness certificates for children and childminders & OTC preparations.
September 05 - QoF; certifying deaths involving MRSA; PCT reconfiguration; new white paper; pensions guidance for accountants; assault cases; HPA; occupational health service; jury service; improving local representation of salaried & freelance GP’s and the Cameron Fund.
December 05 - LMC Secretary stands down; LMC away day; MUR & Dosettes;domiciliary oxygen supply; superannuation; cervical cytology screening; PBC; ‘third’ sector and every child matters.