Guidance
The Guidance Section holds a wealth of information on a wide range of subjects relating to general practice. We have tried to arrange the guidance as simply as we can but we would encourage you to use the Search Guidance facility.
Guidance to practices following requests from schools
Practices are often asked to provide letters to schools to support the organisations request, the LMC has provided some guidance to support practices on the most popular requests to inform practices of their responsibility. We have covered the following areas:...
BMA Official Guidance: Income Declaration
Published 10/11/21 The BMA has just released its official guidance on income declaration. Please see below: Our guidance on income declaration is available here but there have been several questions raised for clarification. We will be updating our web guidance...
Meeting the reasonable needs of patients
Please note that guidance is available on meeting the reasonable needs of patients, which has been drafted in response to NHS England guidance issued to commissioners. It is available here:...
Salaried GP and Locum GP Model Contract
The BMA salaried GPs handbook is a resource for salaried GPs and GP employers. It explains the legal entitlements of salaried GPs as employees, helps to ensure that salaried GPs are aware of their statutory and contractual rights, and outlines the effect of the...
NHS Property Services & Community Health Partnership
Community Health Partnership The BMA is currently supporting 5 practices in legal proceedings against NHSPS on this same issue. These proceedings are ongoing and NHSPS have repeatedly requested extensions, but we expect a resolution soon. Until that time our...
Zero Tolerance
We are all aware that practices have a difficult time when they have patients who display consistently unacceptable behavior, which is time consuming, puts a strain on staff and adds extra workload to practices. The following guidance has been developed by the LMC...
GDPR Information pack
What is GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. This regulation will be effective from the 25th May 2018. Where GPs are concerned this...
DBS Checks for practice employees
DBS Checks The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) carries out criminal record checks for specific positions, professions, employment, offices, works and licences included in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Practices are able to...
Sub-letting practice space
Generally, if the practice is receiving rent from those subletting, then it would be reasonable for the notional rent to be abated. However, if this is not the case and the room is being used to provide services that are supporting the delivery of Primary care this...
PIP Applications
PIP is not part of GPs contractual work – neither the initial application for assessment nor the appeals process. Initial application for assessment: The process appears to be sub-contracted to a company called ATOS and if ATOS believes receiving a GP report would...
Police requests for medical notes from general practice
The BMA has received new legal advice regarding medical note requests received from the police, which are detailed below. Pro forma for practices There is clear guidance regarding the obligations that GPs have with respect to copying and/or release of the GP...
Computer-generated fit notes
Please see attached Med3 FAQs and Fit Note Guidance – Fit notes can be handwritten or computer-generated and printed out. Computer-generated fit notes have the added benefits of: Automatically completing certain parts of the fit note to save you from having...