Somerset LMC Weekly Update Friday 24th May 2024
Date sent: Friday 24 May 2024
Sent to all Somerset GPs and Practice Managers This and previous updates are available here
- MD Soundbites! - GP Diary – Your essential tool for workload management
- GPAS (General Practice Alert State)
- Clinical News/Updates
- Connecting the dots newsletter - Information for GP Partners/Salaried/Locums/Practice Managers
- Practitioners Committee (GPC) England Roadshow 19th June 2024
- IF NOT NOW.... WHEN? Protect Your Practices, To Protect Your Patients. GPC England Officer Team Roadshow Webinar 20th June 2024
- Premises Costs Directions
- Would you like to make sure you are CQCFIT?
- BMA Wellbeing resources
- Change of Title for Trainee Nursing Associates (TNA)
- ORCHA Somerset Apps Library
- NHSE Advanced Practice Digital Badge - e-Portfolio - Training/Events
- Guidance and Roadmap Requirements Q&A for Employers of ARRS Funded Paramedics - Information/Support Session for Somerset Practice Managers/PCN Managers 4th June via Microsoft Teams
- ICB Safeguarding Level 3 training event - 26th June 2024 - Safe Working in General Practice (BMA) This guidance is regularly updated with new items and suggestions
- Job Vacancies
- Top Tips - click here
- National Funding Framework (NFF) 2024/25
Clinical News/Updates
Connecting the dots newsletter: The next connecting the dots meetings which are held monthly is included in the newsletter.
Information for GP Partners/Salaried/Locums/Practice Managers
General Practitioners Committee (GPC) England Roadshow 19th June 2024: Devon LMC will be hosting an evening with Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer (Chair of GPC England) and Dr Julius Parker (Deputy Chair of GPC England) at Exeter Racecourse on Wednesday 19th June 2024 in the evening. Katie is strongly encouraging partners and members of the practice team to attend the roadshow.
The event will explain the “Next steps”, including the options being considered and the plan for action, discussion around the imposed 2024-25 GP Contract and to also hear about GPC England’s vision, strategy and aims for the months ahead leading up to and after the general election. The roadshow is open and free to attend to all GPs (Partners, Salaried, Locums, and Registrars), Practice Managers, and Practice Nurses. You do not need to be a BMA member to attend.
There will be plenty of time for questions, answers, and considered debate. Devon LMC would strongly encourage our members to register and attend this event. Light refreshments will be available on arrival from 18:30pm.
Please register HERE before Wednesday 5th June 2024.
Date: Wednesday 19th June 2024
Time: 19:00-21:00
Venue: Exeter Racecourse, Kennford, Exeter, EX6 7XS
IF NOT NOW.... WHEN? Protect Your Practices, To Protect Your Patients. GPC England Officer Team Roadshow Webinar 20th June 2024 19.00-21.00: Join the national GPC England team to hear about the GP campaign, understand the statutory ballot, and ask questions. They will be presenting the GPC England manifesto and sharing the BMA GP Practice Survival Toolkit to Protect your Practice, Protect your Patients. Register here.
Premises Costs Directions: After almost a decade of pressure from the BMA, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have published the long-anticipated update to the Premises Costs Directions (PCDs), which will bring changes to assist premises costs, including permission for commissioners to award improvement grants of up to 100% of the project value, (up from 66%), and new powers for commissioners to better support contractors. These changes were initially agreed five years ago, as part of the multi-year GP contract in 2019. The full guidance will be published at a later date.
Responding to the announcement, Dr Gaurav Gupta, GPC England premises lead, said: “We’re pleased to see positive steps to help GP premises owners, and any partners aspiring to buy into property-owning partnership in advancing their services to provide the best possible care for patients.
But we still have a very long way to go, with no additional funds going into ICB budget lines. The past decade has seen us caring for an additional eight million patients, with over a thousand practices lost, and record numbers of appointments. It’s clear to patients and GPs alike that we must push Government and NHS England for significantly greater investment into General Practice premises.”
Read the full statement here
Would you like to make sure you are CQCFIT?: CQCFIT have developed a self-assessment platform for you to work through where you can rate yourselves as compliant, work in progress or not compliant. We would like to gather expressions of interest from practices in taking up the offer with CQCFIT? Please would you click this link to register your interest for your practice, please return the survey by Friday 7 June 2024.
BMA Wellbeing resources: The BMA continues to encourage practices to focus on their own team’s well-being and take time to reflect on what can be done to protect it (this will also meet the requirements of QOF quality improvement project on staff well-being. A range of well-being and support services are also available to doctors, from the BMA’s counselling and peer support services, NHS practitioner health service, Samaritans and Doctors in Distress. See the BMA poster with 10 tips to help maintain and support well-being.
Change of Title for Trainee Nursing Associates (TNA): Following conversations between NHS England and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the importance of recognising the recommended title for a learner on an NMC approved programme leading to registration as a nursing associate has been reiterated. Therefore the NMC’s recommended title of Student Nursing Associate (SNA) will be adopted with immediate effect. For further information please see this linked letter.
ORCHA Somerset Apps Library: The Somerset Library contract is coming to an end on 31 May 2024. GP practices are being asked to remove any links to the Somerset Apps Library on their desktops and websites if you have any currently. The NHS is available to all GP registered patients aged 13 and over and it provides a range of health and wellbeing resources.
NHSE Advanced Practice Digital Badge - e-Portfolio: The NHS England Centre for Advancing Practice team have provided an update to future cohorts of the e-Portfolio (supported) Route. "Whilst the team continue to navigate the new procurement processes at NHS England, they have unfortunately encountered delays which are beyond their control. The Centre now anticipates cohort 4 commencing in Autumn 2024 and will continue to update stakeholders in due course." Any staff in an Advanced Practice role but without an NHSE accredited Masters qualification may be eligible to undertake the e-portfolio route, more information and an expression of interest form can be found here. Please note that it is our understanding that the e-portfolio route will close in 2027.
Training/Events
Guidance and Roadmap Requirements Q&A for Employers of ARRS Funded Paramedics - Information/Support Session for Somerset Practice Managers/PCN Managers 4th June via Microsoft Teams: A session hosted jointly by Somerset LMC, Somerset ICB and the Primary Care Academy. Catherine Hayden (LMC AHP lead), Sarah Moore (ICB ARRS Lead) and Lily Dixon (SW regional FCP Lead) will lead employers or prospective employers through the DES requirements and NHS England Roadmap to Practice requirements for ARRS funded paramedics.
ICB Safeguarding Level 3 training event - 26th June 2024: This is an all day event, with a focus on ‘Exploitation’ and includes the following speakers…Androulla Nicolau -Child Exploitation Prevention Officer at Avon and Somerset Police and Junior Smart -Training and Consultancy for Serious Youth and Group Violence as well as Child Exploitation. Junior also works with the St Giles Trust and can share his own lived experience.
Attendance at this training event will count towards mandatory Level 3 Safeguarding training requirements! -Being both multi-agency and face to face.
To book your place please contact the team at Somicb.safeguardingandcla@nhs.net
Kind regards
Jill
Jill Hellens
Executive Director
Somerset LMC
Crown Medical Centre, Venture Way, Taunton, TA2 8QY
Tel: (01823) 331 428
Fax: (01823) 338 561
www.somersetlmc.co.uk
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