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Somerset Weekly Update Friday 11th September 2015

Date sent: Friday 11 September 2015

All Somerset GPs and Practice Managers            This and previous updates can be found here

Council Tax Rebates: A number of Somerset Practices will have received substantial rebates, while these do have to be repaid to NHS England,  Lentells accountants have advised the LMC that the interest should remain with the practice as the interest would have been paid in the name of the partnership and will have had income tax deducted - and therefore needs to be declared as partnership income in the partnership tax return.

Nursing Home Payments: we have been advised by a practice that when they migrated to EMIS web their numbers of patients in nursing homes and residential care showed a significant drop, on investigation the new RI codes should have been inserted to confirm the nursing/residential care location which triggered the payment levels. As this was not done the practice income was affected due to the drop in numbers, practices may wish to check this as a number have recently migrated in this way.

Childhood Flu Years 1 & 2: All Children in school years 1 & 2 will be offered the jab by the school nurses, including the at risk group (parents will be receiving letters as we speak) if the school nurse is not happy to give the nasal flu to a child they will be advised to visit their GP practice.

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Kind Regards

Jill

 

Jill Hellens

Executive Director

Somerset LMC

TEL: 01823 331428

 

Fax:01823 338561

www.somersetlmc.co.uk

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