All Somerset GPs and Practice Managers
Dear Colleagues
Please find links to the following documents
1. Network DES Specification
2. Network DES Guidance
3. Network DES Registration Form
4. Network Agreement
5. Network Contract VAT Information Note
6. GP contract 2019/20: NHS England...
All Somerset GPs and Practice Managers
The Alternative Canary Latest blog from LMC Chairman Nick Bray
Somerset LMC Spring Newsletter 2017
NHS Standard Contract 17/18
Changes to the Statement of Fitness for Work form
EMIS Remote Consult: Sharing Agreement
Dols Legislative Change
Porter Dodson...
All Somerset GPs and Practice Managers This and previous updates can be found here
NEW LMC Chairman
PSU (Provider Support Unit) GP Options Documents
Firearms guidance update - message on behalf of John Canning, Chair of the Professional Fees...
Sent to all Somerset GPs, Practice Managers and Lead Nurses This and previous updates are available here
Investing in Primary Care ES
Antivirals Now Indicated for Treatment of Flu
Well@Work - Baseline Health Questionnaires (BHQ's)
Vaccine Update - Special Edition 2016
Investing in...
NHS England released guidance on the new out of area patient registration (choice of GP practice) arrangements during November 2014, click here to access this.
What does this actually mean?
Within the guidance that has been issued it identifies 2 elements to this scheme which are:
Out of...
CQRS Local has been built with practices in mind, and offers several new benefits with its uptake.
The new system offers a single point of access for local and national claims, with payment from CQRS local going directly to the practice bank account in the same way as national payments.
Some...
Advanced Learning Disabilities Support
Anti-Coagulation Initiation, Stabilisation and Monitoring
Community Leg Ulcer Service (Federation Based) Frome
Community Leg Ulcer Service (Federation Based) South Somerset
Community Leg Ulcer Service CLICK
Complex Care (Federation...
Enhanced Services Local and National 2022/24
Enhanced Service Specification COVID-19 vaccination programme: phase 3 2021/22 and phase 4 2022/23 - March 22
Enhanced services (ES), Vaccination and Immunisation (V&I) and core contract components (CC) business rules 2022-2023
Pneumococcal - Green...
Enhanced Services Local and National 2024/25
Local Enhanced Services
National Funding Framework (NFF)
National Funding Framework - Appendix 1
Somerset Council's Public Health team have prepared a suite of resources to support this work, alongside the national practice...
The following is an extract from the NHS Employers website. This link takes you to the contract changes for 2015/16, dating back to 2006/07:
NHS Employers and the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association have agreed changes to the General Medical Services...
GP Contract 2024/2025
Highlights
The global sum will be a figure of £107.57 per patient based on the contractor weighted population figure.
Practices under GMS, PMS and APMS contracts will all see an uplift of £2.84 per weighted patient unless the contract specifies the raw list.
Adjustments...
Green Impact For Health
The Green Impact for Health project has been developed for General Practice by the National Union of Students, GPs, trainees, and medical students. It's supported by University of Bristol, NHS Health Education South West and the Severn Faculty of the RCGP. The web-based...
Background
The Conservative Manifesto for the 2015 election included a number of pledges to increase access to general practice. A Conservative government would “ensure that you can see a GP seven days a week by 2020” and that “everyone over 75 will get a same day appointment if they need...
Issue 205
Seven Day Access to General Practice
Information sharing with other health and social care providers
From the Archives
Somerset STP what it is really all about
The Cameron Fund
Dr Whimsy
Online Access to Digital GP Record 2019/20 contract
Joint BMA and NHSE statement Online access
The General Medical Services (GMS) and Personal Medical Services (PMS) contracts (2014/15) include the requirement for general practices to offer and promote to patients: online appointment...
The Patient Online programme has released two oolkits to support GP practices, CCGs, CSUs and other NHS organisations with the effective promotion of online services to patients: ordering of repeat prescriptions, booking of appointments and viewing of medical records. The toolkits consist of...
This GP Timetable and Guide was developed by the LMC and Resilience team and we hope practices find it useful, it is being updated continually as services change or are updated.The support documents are listed below
GP Contract agreement QOF Aspiration
National Enhanced Services
NHS Digital...
This Enhanced Service is being offered between February 17 and October 17 in recognition of work caused by QRISK2 mapping error, practices will be offered the service via CQRS and will need to sign up to accept it
Letter from David Geddes
Enhanced Service Specification
FAQs (LMC/SPH/CCG)
2022
Enhanced Access FAQs
2020
Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service Frequently Asked Questions 2020/21
National FAQS
Q: Do the PCN Agreement Schedules need to be submitted to the CCG by 30 June 2019?
A: The BMA have advised that the PCN Schedules do not need to be...
Top Tips 2024
25.1.24
Ardens CQC Searches
The LMC wanted to make practices aware of a suite of searches that the CQC use when they are planning to review a practice. These can be located within the Ardens searches on EMIS. They are called 'CQC Inspection Searches'. They include Safety Alerts,...
Unplanned Admissions enhanced service National Specification 15/16
Summary of key Changes for 15/16
Unplanned Admissions Specification with reporting template Word Version
Following a number of queries about how often the care plan for the Avoiding Unplanned Admissions (AUA) enhanced service...
