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...
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...
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:...
We have included the key contractural documents that relate to General Practice.
National Contractural documents
Local Contractural documents
Primary Care Network DES
National Contractural documents
NHS contract documents
Arrangements for the GP contract in 2024/25
Implementing the 2024/25...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Yesterday at GPC England, GPCE voted to move ahead with a non-statutory ballot for collective action in England.
The ballot will be open to all GP contractors and partners. We need you to vote YES, to send a message to Government that we are ready to stand up for a better service for our...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
