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NHS England statement re Carr Hill formula

NHS England and the BMA have released a joint statement on the Carr Hill formula this week. I reproduce it below for you. Yet again the review of the Carr Hill formula is deferred for another year. We are disappointed. While we welcome the intentions of NHS England, we do wonder if they...

2018/19 Indemnity Settlement & the Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice (CNSGP)

Please see the information relating to the 2018/19 Indemnity settlement. GPC England and NHS England have agreed the amount to cover the increased cost of indemnity for 2018/19. This will again be £60m and be paid on a per-patient basis equivalent to £1.005 per patient. Practices and individual...

23/24 Contract Specification details

NHSE have now published the details in relation to contract changes for 23/24. All of the contract specification details can be found here. We have attached them individually via the links below: Enhanced service specification: weight management programme Enhanced service specification:...

24/25 Key Contractual Documents

We have included the key contractural documents that relate to General Practice. National Contractural documents Local Contractural documents Primary Care Network DES Practice Managers Support National Contractural documents NHS contract documents Arrangements for the GP contract in...

GP contract five-year framework

The NHS Long Term Plan committed £4.5 billion more for primary medical and community health services by 2023/24. This will support better care for patients outside hospital in their local communities. NHS England and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee have agreed...

GP contract negotiations for 22/23

The GPC has released the following statement in regards to the GP contract negotiations for 22/23. As you will probably be aware, despite negotiations between GPC England and NHS England about amendments to the five year contract deal agreed in 2019, NHS England announced last week that the...

GP REFERENDUM

NATIONAL If not now, when? GPC England ballot for GP contractors / partners Protect Your Patients, Protect Your Practice - Vote YES and use the BMA GP Practice Survival Toolkit The ballot to Save General Practice is open. Following the third annual contract imposition and with general...

Guidance on new obligation to complete biannual extended access survey

New obligation From October 2016, as set out in regulations, every GP practice in England will be required to submit an online return twice a year through the Primary Care Web Tool: www.primarycare.nhs.uk within a new module titled 'Biannual Extended Access'. This will set out what access to...

How to informally close your practice list

The LMC has recently received questions from practices about how to informally close their practice list. We have prepared these FAQs to assist practices. Which practices can informally close their list of registered patients? All practices have a contractual right to decline to register any...

New NHS Vaccination programme against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

GPC have issued an update following recommendations by the JCVI, two new RSV vaccination programmes will begin from 1 September 2024: Adults aged 75 - 79 years old Pregnant women to protect infants NHSE intend to commission this from General Practice as an Essential Service. This represents a...

Payments for GP performers covering sickness leave

2017/18 GMS AGREEMENT FAQs Guidance published by the BMA is available here Any further questions, please dont hesitate to contact the LMC office on 0116 2962950 or enquiries@llrlmc.co.uk

Practice Managers Support

We recognise that the Practice Managers are usually the heart of General Practice, but the role is often described as isolating and expectations and workload are forever increasing. The LMC is here to support Practice Managers as much as we can, and have recently done a PM survey to look at the...

Sub-letting practice space

Generally, if the practice is receiving rent from those subletting, then it would be reasonable for the notional rent to 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 would not be the case, though it...

Travel immunisations/vaccines

PLEASE READ THIS GUIDANCE PAGE IN FULL AND CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS The LMC often receives queries from practices in relation to immunisations, specifically travel vaccinations and what is core and non-core for practices to deliver, so we hope this guidance provides some clarity to...