Previous years Newsletters
November 11 - LMC elections; Enhanced services; retrospective prescribing; viewing x-ray results; GWAS; negotiating news; seasonal flu vaccine strategic reserve; flu vaccine procurement 2012/13; good medical practice; travel immunisations; royal medical benevolent fund; indemnity cover; fire arms licence; SBS and HPVA vaccinations.
October 11 - Pensions; FHS v NHS SBS; practice nurse indemnity; CQC fees proposal; reports for insurance companies; Maggies cancer caring centre; social determinants of health - what can Drs do?; prescribing specials guidance; vault cytology; unused medicines for the third world; pension dynamising factor; antibiotic leaflets; locum agreement guidance and NHS general practice work force guidance.
September - LMC election; 7 day prescriptions; patient record; NHS 111; District valuers' report; BMA membership check; X-Ray departments in Community Hospitals; urine samples; death certification; PHARM aid; first aid; flu jabs; SCR; preparing for winter and GP trainees conference.
August 2011 - Shotgun and firearms license; CQC registration; New BMA Industrial Relations Officer; NHS pathways; SMART cards; Lyme disease; GP Educator seniority; mental Health Act and pensions.
July 2011 - Any qualified provider; CRB checks; patient participation DES (BMA FAQ list); Dosette boxes; seniority figures; NHS choices website; HR transition framework; Electronic prescriptions service survey; chronic kidney disease FAQs; refresher training in taking cervical smears and Eric Gambrill memorial fund.
June 2011 - LMC conference; CQC
consultation; NHS SBS bid for shared services; blue badge scheme; Legionnaires
disease; vetting and baring scheme; measles and stolen identity.
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May 11 - GPC regional elections; LMC membership; initial assessments for children inc are; ethnicity recording; extended hours DES; fitness to work certificates; care after death advice; prison GP conference; concessionary travel forms; information governance and SCR uploads.
April 2011 - CQC compliance; Patient participation DES; survey of GP opinion; QMAS successor; another scam and IM&T.
March 2011 - Health and social care bill; BMA lobbying toolkit; the democratic process; 2011/12 contract changes; seniority payments; good practice guidelines for GP electronic patient records; care quality commission; Coils and LARC fittings; clinical waste disposal; pensions; GP support; patients in Spain; MRSA and taking on new GP partners.
February 2011
- The BMA
is still very concerned that if GPs are to provide the NHS’s
clinical leadership; Local commissioning plans, 'get on the bus, get off the
bus'; Bribery ACT; QMAS and good news; N3 connection; care quality connection;
Not the CQC; training requirements for fitting contraceptive devices; medical
indemnity cover, breast cancer resource pack, blue badge scheme; mental health,
BMA Sessional GP's newsletter; forged fit notes; GP and practice team bulletin,
partnership agreements; guidance on antibiotics news; employment law and pension
contributions.
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December 10 - Reports; dept collectors; medicines shortage; employment law and 'scam'.
October 10 - White paper consultations; breast screening; summary care records; LMC meeting highlights; patient involvement; buying group; income opportunity; care quality commission; expenditure reporting by PCT; general practice profiles on cancer; Severn faculty of the RCGP; clinical waste audits and medicines management.
August 10 - Implementing the white paper; appraisal toolkit; patient group directions; another scam; sessional GP's subcommittee elections; pharmaceutical needs assessment; information prescriptions; level 4 anticoagulation and GP trainees elections.
July 10 - NHS White paper; Summary care records; SFE; MRSA pre-screening; Kings Fund enquiry into quality of general practice; The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA); Dispensing and prescribing and LMC rate.
June 10 - Emergency budget; QoF and QMAS; Seniority factors; vetting and barring scheme; bribery act; reports for patients claiming benefits; patient survey PE7/8; new tax bracket; sale of dispensing good will; valedictory and buying group offer.
May 10 - BMA employers advisory service; infectious diseases notification; SMART cards; LMC rates; internet connections; swine flu and learning disabilities list.
April 10 - DES's; swine flu vaccinations; helping veterans; fit notes; ACR; caldicot guardians; Zoladex prescriptions; Community pharmacy guide; revalidation consultation; ATOS; SCR; incident reporting and premises.
March 10 - Tax changes; GP practice pay; NHS pensions; summary care record; CfH questionnaire; patient survey results Q1-Q3; Chlamydia screening; PMS review; MH referrals and practice premises.
February 10 - Goodbye to sick notes; sick children taking exams; your chance to influence IT; sessional GP's; swine flu; national audit of falls and bone health in older people; consolidated SFE; seniority figure; QoF; resuscitation; abolition of practice boundaries; BMA employment law courses; military veterans; CRB and ISA.
January 10 - Contract agreements; 084 numbers; Inland revenue; stress line; complaints procedure; DIPEx websites; private screenings and vetting and barring scheme.
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Sessional GP newsletter 10 - Representation; Contractual and professional; issues; revalidation;
GP Trainees E-Bulletin Feb 10 - GP trainees conference; extending training; DDRB; meeting with employers; ask BMA and BMA GP trainees website.
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December 09 - Swine flu under %'s LES; dispensing practices; child protection; migraine and Choose and Book.
October 09 - Swine flu vaccine; charging sessional GP's for flu vaccinations; QoF results; pandemic flu update; vetting and barring scheme; MRSA; confidentiality; paper payments method; dispensing doctors; getting the car park; conferences; GP's steering NHS direct and DDRB.
September 09 - Swine flu (various items); consequential arrangements; command and control arrangements; anti virals; national concerns raised with GPC; buying groups federation; access; complaints; cervical cytology; local involvement networks; European working time directive; BMA conference; possible scams; BMJ group awards and NHSE review of effectiveness of contract for doctors in training.
August 09 - UCRC; death in service; patient participation group; child death review process; complaints procedure and lead GP for Glos clinical academy.
July 09 - Swine flu sicknotes; emergency SFE; Foundation Trust news; retired GP's; humour; improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) and patient confidentiality.
May 09 - Swine flu; Channel islands - free NHS care entitlement; revalidation; GMC registration; single point of contact; anonymity in reporting; Choose and Book; minor surgery; email migration; Novachannel AG
April 09 - DDRB; LMC rate; care quality commission; QoF interim payments; Practice Managers network; Clinical DES's; GPC reminder; Freedom of information; repeated requests of patient records; fraud - overseas visitors; web based C&B and Prince's foundation for integrated health.
February 09 - Clinical DES; collaboration with Pharmacists; C&B; Patient participation groups; personal health budgets; handbook for salaried GP's; telephone hackers; Wet AMD; NHS Pensions; BMA bets practice website; Health in pregnancy grant; Aphasia Day 30th Mar 09 and Obesity, Diabetes and metabolic symposium May 09.
January 09 - Revalidation; freedom of information act; pandemic flu; LD DES; Alcohol DES; C&B payments; OOH's review; IT support; payments by PCT; terminating PMS contract; Cancer patient scrip charges; housing lists; Change4life; BMA Junior members BMA forum; police demands; complaints procedure; minor surgery training; 084 numbers; patients - when are they yours?; Local Practice news; LMC meeting highlights; care first and strokes.