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Newsletters from before 2003 have now been removed from this page and index. 

			A

Abnormal Test Results
Access to Mental Health Services Out of Hours
Access to IT Systems by Non-NHS Staff
Adult Social Services Referrals for Care or OT Assessment
Agenda for Change
Agenda For Change and General Practice 
Agenda for Change - Oct 05
Alcohol Use by GPs
Ambulance Transport

			B

Bed Crises - coping
Benevolent Fund
BMA Somerset Division
Brand or Generic Prescribing
Breast Reduction - Less is more for GPs
British Doctors and Dentists Group

			C

CAB Software Incompatibility
Care Direct - March 2006
Carer Support - Training from St Johns Ambulance - May 07
Cataract Surgery - Netcare Contract
Centrifuges - Blood Samples - Dec 07
Certificates of Fitness to Exercise
Change of GP - Patient Requests
Changes to form E11
Changing a Patients Name on their Records
Chaperones
Child Health Reviews
Child Protection - Requests for Information
Childhood Immunisations and Travel
Children with Conjunctivitis
'Choice' - Dec 2006
Cholera Vaccine - Jan 08
Choose and Book
Choose and Book - June 05
Choose and Book - September 05
Choose and Book - January 06
Choose and Book at T and S
Choose and Book - February 08
Choose and Book Referrals - July 07
Chronic Kidney Disease and EGFR - Dec 2006
Collaborative Arrangements
Collection of Prescriptions for controlled Drugs
Combination Inhalers in Asthma
Commissioning a Patient Led NHS 
Comment Cards for Care Home
Complaints - Support from the LMC
Complaints Procedure - Changes in
Condition Management Programme Pilot Update
Connecting for Health
Connecting for Health - more
Connexions
Consent for Minor Surgery
Consultation on Death Certification - August 07
Continuity Planning 
Controlled Drug Prescribing
Cost of Short Duration Prescriptions
Counterfeit Pharmaceutic
Compensation for Miners
Copying Letters to Patients
Cpdforum.org.uk - A Local Success Story
CPD and the Sessional GP
Credit Card Thefts from Surgeries
Cremation Forms
Criminal Records Disclosure

			D

Data Confidentiality - August 07
Deaths on GP Premises
Dental Helpline
Department of Health Publications 
Detecting Prostate Cancer
Diabetes Patient Questionaire
Diabetic Retinal Screening
Diabetic Retinopathy
Digital Diabetic Retinopathy Screening - Dec 2006
Disabled Parking Applications
Disposal of Sharps by Patients at Home
Disposable Sharps Bins for Diabetic Patients
DLA and AA
DNA Hospital Appointments
Doctors Rubber Stamps
Domestic Violence in Somerset
Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin
Drug Users - Maintenance Prescribing For

			E

Early Dementia - November 2007
ECDL
Editorial Policy
Emailing Consultants
Emailing Confidential Information
Emergency Admission
Enhanced Service for Near Patient Testing 
Erosion of General Practice
Ethnicity
European General Practice
Evidence Based Medicine - thoughts

			F

Fair Access to Care Services 
Fallout from National Contract Negotiations
False Registration - May 07
Fixion and Cremation
Fees for Local Authority Work
Flexible Opening Hours- November 2007
Flu - What to do
Flu Immunisation 2005 
Foster Carers Medical Examinations Payments
Freedom of Information Act Publication Schemes
Freedom of Information - Jan 2005
Freedom of Information - May 05
Fuel Poverty and Energy Advice
Funding for Appraisal
Future of Health Visiting - August 07

			G

General Practice at the Brink - Jan 08
General Practice Under Fire - Sept 07
Global Sum Adjustment
Global Sum Review - April 07
Glucosamine and Chondroitin
Gluten Free Foods
GMS Contract Reserved Clauses
GMS 2 Continuation of Enhanced Services
GMS2 Residual Claims under GMS1
GMS 2 Contract - Time to Sign
GMS Contract Review
Goodwill - Sale of
Good Doctors, Safer Patients - LMC Response
GP2GP Notes
GPC Ballot - February 08
GP Clinical Data - Who Owns?
GP Pay and Government Spin
GP Registrar News and Newsletter
GP Pensions
GP Returners
GP Training - Jan 08
GP Treatment of Service Personnel
Guidance from Association of British Insurers and BMA
Guidelines on CPR

			H

Health and Safety Audit Tool
Health Reference Forms for Prospective GDC Registrants - Dec 2006
Hep B Immunisation- July 05
Hep B Immunisation
Hospital Prescriptions - Recording
Housing Applications - more

			I

IT- Future for General Practice
IT Matters (Dec 05)
IT Update
Immunisation Group - November 2007
Immunisation Matters 
Immunisation - Feb 2007
Inappropriate Requests for Reports from GPs
Incapacity Benefits - more support for Claimants
IT Backup Verification
IT - The Future of General Practice IT
IT Funding

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			K

			L

Laboratory Investigations
LMC Archives - Dec 07
LMC Conference Motions 2003
LMC Conference Motions 2004
LMC Fighting Fund
LMC and the Pharmaceutical Industry
LMC Mail Service
LMC Subscriptions
Locum Superannuation
Long Term Conditions Survey
Lyme Disease

			M

Maintenance Prescribing for Drug Users
Making Sense of NHS Changes 
Map of Medicine - Sept 07
Managing Poor Performance
Maternity Pay for GP Registrars - Loss of Benefits from April 2004
Medical Education
Medical Examination of Taxi Drivers
Medical School Attachments
Medical Training Overseas - Appeals for Money
Medicals for Children in Care
Melatonin
Mental Capacity Act 2007 - Sept 2007
Mental Health Services for Minority Communities - Dec 07
Methotrexate Injections
Microbiology Update - July 2006
Microsoft Home User Programme
Military Personnel February 08
Monitoring Patients on Venlafaxine
MMR Boosters for Young Adults
Mobile Phones - Government Contract
Mobile Phones - More
Mobile Phone Scam
Monitored Dosage Schemes - more
MRSA in the Community - November 2007
Musculoskeletal and Orthopaedic Referrals - November 07
My Health Book - Update

			N

National Bowel Screening Program - Jan 08
National Care Records Service - Dec 2006
National Programme for IT
Near Patient INR Testing
Near Patient INR Update
Neutropenic Sepsis Protocol
New Contract Half Year Report Oct 2004
New Hazardous Waste Regulations
New Oxygen Service 
NHS and Private Providers
NHS Care Records Service
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
NHS in 2007 - Dec 2006
NHS Operating Framework
Not the Queen's English
Novachannel AG - November 2007
NPfiT

			0

Older People - Assessing Health and Social Needs
OOH Care in England
Out of Hours Starter Packs
Out of Hours - latest Jan 2004
Out of Hours May 2004
Out of Hours August 2004
Out of Hours September 2004
Out of Hours Sessional Payments - August 07
Out of Hours November 2004
OOH Update September 05
OOH Medicines Supplies
OOH Service - Oct 05
Oseltamivir
Overseas Visitors -Who is eligible for Treatment
Over the Counter Medication
Ownership of Practice Premises
Oxygen Concentrators 
Oxygen Supply - Dec 2006

			P

Paediatric Clinical Assessment Service - February 08
Palliative Care Arrangements - November 2007
Paperless Practice Accreditation
Partnership Agreements
Partnerships for Older People - November 2007
Partnerships for Older People Project
Patient Clinical Queries
Patient Identifiable Information in Correspondence with LMC Office
Patient Lists, Allocations and Assignments
Patient Registration - refusal of 
Patients Abusing Medication - How Much to Disclose
Patients on Warfarin - New Guidelines 
Passport Applications - July 2006
Payment for Vaccines
PCT Data Extraction
PCT Leg Ulcer Service
PCT Training Events
Pension Agency Database
Pension Changes - Dec 07
Personal General Practice 
PGEA RIP
Pharmacy Contractual Frameworks
PMS Agreements
PMS Important Updates June 2004
Police Referrals to GPs for Recording Injuries
Polio Vaccine for Travellers
PPI Forums
Practice Based Commissioning
Practice Based Commissioning - more
Practice Lists and the Global Sum
Practice Notepaper
Pre-Employment Screening
Premium Rate Phone Numbers
Prescribing Budgets 
Prescribing Matters - April 07
Prescribing Matters - Sept 2007
Prescription Exemption
Prescription Quantities
Prescriptions after Private Specialist Consultations
Private Prescriptions
Private Referrals
Proactive Referral Scheme

			Q

QMAS Utility
QuOF Visits
QOF Changes

			R

Recording Hospital Prescriptions
Recording Significant Allergies
Recovery Plan (doc)
Recovery Plan (pdf)
Referral Diversion
Referral to Secondary Care
Referral Letters
Referrals to Secondary Care Jan 2005
Referrals for Private Care
Referral Management Centres
Referral of Children
Referrals to Children's Social Care
Registered Patients and the Global Sum
Release of Electronic Data to PCTs
Returning Medical Records to the PCT
Rogue Heroin

			S

Safer Management of Controlled Drugs
Sale of Goodwill
Section 136
Sickness Certificates
Significant Event Audit
Security Management - Sept 07
Seniority Payments
Seven Day Prescriptions
Services for Organophosphate Damaged Patients
Shared Care Drug Services
Shepton Mallet Independent Sector Treatment Centre
Shepton Mallet Independent Sector Treatment Centre- August 05
Shepton Mallet Independent Sector Treatment Centre - January 06
Single Point of Access - August 07
Single Use Instruments
Smear Takers Register
Somerset Booking Management Service
Somerset Chlamydia Screening
Somerset GP Education Trust
Somerset Health Informatics Service
Somerset Learning Disabilty Community 
Nurse Team
Somerset LMC Motions to 2004 Conference of LMCs
Somerset CFS/ME Service
Somerset Community Drugs and Alcohol Services - August 07
Somerset Chlamydia Screening
Somerset Foundation Trusts
Somerset PALS - February 08
Stress - GP Support
Superannuation
Superannuation Clarification
Superannuation Contributions for Locums
Superannuation Contributions for Locums
Superannuation and QOF Payments
Supporting Carers
Support for Carers in Somerset
Support for Staff and Associate Specialist Doctors
Supporting Public Services- December 07
Suspended GP Performer
Sustaining Innovation through New PMS Arrangements
Surgery Line

			T

Taunton Academy
Telephone Preference Service 
The Tractor Factory
Tiered NHS Pension Contributions - Sept 07
Transferring Medical Records
Travel Immunisations - Charges
Travel Immunisation - Last Minute Requests 
Traveling Abroad with Controlled Drugs
Treatment by a Specific GP
Twinrix

			U

Unsolicited Email Consultation Requests
Using Referral Forms

			V

Vacutainer Barrels
Vaniqa - New Product Assessment
Varicella Immunisation
Vulnerable Single People and Homelessness

			W

Walk in Theft
Warfarin Monitoring
What Future for the PCT - November 07
Wheelchairs
Wheelchairs for Short Term Loan
Working Hours
Written Notification to Patients Refused Registration
WyvernHealth.Com - Dec 07

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