Issue 214
Clinical Negligence Service for General Practice - A Sugared Pill or a Plum Pudding?
Meddcare Somerset
Post-Natal Checks and “Child Sam”
The Somerset Red Bag Scheme
Primary Care Networks - The GPC Answers Your FAQs
Letter to Jennifer
Issue 213
A Gentle Reminder: PCNs Need Robust General Practice
The Bereavement Journey
GP at Hand Evaluation
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Rules for In-Patients
Issue 212
The Turning of the Tide
LARCH: Enabling People’s Care Wishes to be Known
Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
The Intermittent Diary of a Mature GP
Issue 211
Transformation: Making Quality Care Easier
Rapid Response Service
GP Recruitment Evening - 17th October
Dr Nigel Watson's GP Partnership Review
The Intermittent Diary of a Mature GP
Issue 210
Somerset GP Board
New Somerset LMC 2018
The New Pre-Conception Service at Taunton & Somerset
Registrars Are Looking Out For You
Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme
GP Practices Across the Country to Become 'Veteran Friendly'
Cremation Forms
Error, Negligence and Fault
Issue 209
Goodbye and Thanks for all the Fish
The NHSE South West Performance Advisory Group
Elections for the 2018-2022 LMC
South West Child Health Information Service
The Reader
The Intermittent Diary of a "Mature" GP (Aged 55 and three quarters)
Issue 208
Swimming with the Tide
Palliative Care Update
A Sustainable Way of Improving Healthcare in the Third World
Somerset Local Medical Benevolent Fund
Nooks and Crannies of the NHS Regulations
Conversation in the Supermarket
Dr Whimsy's Casebook: Doctoring by numbers
Issue 207
Lifestyle Medicine
Guidance for Primary Care Transitioning* from READ to SNOMED CT Version 1
The Somerset General Practice Board
The Intermittent Diary of a "Mature" GP (Aged 55 and three quarters)
Issue 206
Peering Through the Murk
Eligibility of Non-UK Residents for NHS Treatment
Information Sharing for Better Health Care
Macmillan Cancer Lead for Somerset
Columnist Sought
Recruited a GP?
Dr Whimsy's Casebook: The Performers List
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
Issue 204
Clinical Indemnity Cover - Time for a Change
GPs and Community Pharmacists: Natural Bedfellows
Ear Wax
SGPET and the Community Education Provider Network
Dr Whimsy's Casebook: Risk Management
Issue 203
Dancing the Next Quadrille
Looking After Your Practice Manager
Improving How Hospitals Work With General Practice
Malaria Imported into the UK: 2015
SSAFA - The Armed Forces Charity
Useful RCGP Mental Health Toolkit
Dr Whimsy's Casebook: Sunday Trading
Issue 201
Somerset Together - with or without GPs?
Somerset Practice Quality Scheme for 2016-17
National Child Measurement Programme
Jobs??
SMALL ADS... SMALL ADS... SMALL ADS...
Rollout of EMIS Viewer
'Feel Better With A Book' Project
Dr Whimsy's Casebook: NHS Policymakers in Action...
Issue 200
Controlled Drug Abuse and Security of Blank Prescription Forms
Domestic Violence
Survey for GPs
Annual LMC Awards
Somerset Local Medical Benevolent Fund Charitable Donations
Dr Whimsy's Casebook
Issue 195
20th February 2015 They havent got a clue - 20th February 2015 PTSD- 20th February 2015 Group A Streptoccocal infections-20th February 2015-Prescibing for patients in Nursing Homes-20th February 2015 New risk of medication diversion and abuse-20th February 2015 Dr Whimsy
Care.data - December 2014
Open Letter to NICE from a Somerset GP - December 2014
Prepare for a Long Haul - December 2014
Radiology Reporting - December 2014
Workload and Patient Safety - December 2014
Demand and Capacity in General Practice - August/September 2014
Flu Immunisation - We need to do better - August/September 2014
Hospital Discharge Requests for MDS packs - August/September 2014
Patients who need help from Social Care to take their medication - August/September 2014
Sessional GP...
Payments to Locums - July 2014
Practice Funding Ready Reckoner - July 2014
SGPET Activity in South Somerset - ST3s - July 2014
The NHS is Broke - Time to Fix it - July 2014
Violent Patient Scheme in Somerset - July 2014
CCG Safety Net Newsletter - March 2014
GP Out of Hours Service - March 2014
LMC Award for the most helpful organisation of 2013 - March 2014
Somerset Bowel Scope Screening Programme - March 2014
Somerset Practice Quality Scheme: Time to Make Your Decision - March 2014
What to do if a GP or Nurse...
All Change in the NHs - November 2013
Multisource and Patient Feedback, What should you expect? - November 2013
NHS Mail for Sessional GPs - November 2013
Relocation Relocation Relocation- November 2013
South West Clinical Senate - November 2013
Changes to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme - September 2013
Why there is a law against holding a mobile phone and driving - September 2013
Winds of Change - September 2013
EPACCS Register - May 2013
Locum Supperannuation - May 2013
New Treatment Options for managing IBS - May 2013
Significant Events - May 2013
Tadalafil for BPH - May 2013
Treatment of Anaemia in Pregnancy - May 2013
Unscheduled Care in Somerset - May 2013
Changes to Locum GP Employer Superannuation - March 2013
DWP Fit Note Guidance - March 2013
Looking Both Ways - March 2013
New Service for Gestational Diabetes at TST - March 2013
Safeguarding Children Training - March 2013
Somerset LMC Practice Levy - March 2013
Continuing Medical Education for Revalidation - October 2012
Contracts for Private Care - October 2012
Flexible Healthcare Urology Pathways - October 2012
Haemoglobin Reporting - October 2012
LMC Practice Nurse Advisor - October 2012
Pertussis Immunisation - October 2012
Practice Managers:...
A Plague of Macrocytosis - August 2012
Equipment Testing - August 2012
Influencing Patient Expectations - August 2012
Occupational Health Advice for GPs - August 2012
Point of Care Testing - August 2012
Outpatient Prescribing- July 2012
Practices, Federations and the Somerset CCG - July 2012
Reducing the risk from Bowel Cleansing Solutions - July 2012
Requests for Medical Information in Support of Housing Applications- July 2012
Salaried and Retained Doctors End of Year Return to NHS Pensions...
Appliance Supply without Prescription June 2012
360 Appraisals June 2012
GP Prescription Requests - June 2012
Image Exchange Portals - June 2012
Letter from the LMC Chairman - June 2012
LMC Conference 2012 - June 2012
Metal on Metal Joint Replacements June 2012
X rays and images showing...
Ecotherapy on Prescription - April 2012
Interim Seniority Factors for 2012/13 - April 2012
Limited Availability of Dermatology Appointments - April 2012
LMC Levies - April 2012
PMAR Reports - April 2012
Practices and their LMCs - April 2012
When is a Locum not a Locum - April 2012
Where are we...
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme - January 2012
Changes to Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing - January 2012
Community Dietetic Service Referrals Pathways - January 2012
Health Community Work on Stopping Smoking - January 2012
Medical Examinations in Early Pregnancy - January...
Changes to the Disabled Persons (Blue Badge) Regulations 2000 - November 2011
2009/10 GP Earnings and Expenses Enquiry - November 2011
GP Pensions How Big is the Threat- November 2011
Norovirus - November 2011
Parvovirus B19 in Pregnancy - November 2011
Pathway Navigator App - November 2011
Self...
CCG August Report - October 2011
Coming Apart at the Seams - October 2011
Green Bags - October 2011
Helping your Locum Help You - October 2011
Hints and Tips - Biochemistry - October 2011
IUCDs - October 2011
'New Medicines' Service - October 2011
Prescribing Guidance for 'Specials' - October...
C diff - August 2011
Grasping the Nettle - August 2011
Maternal Deaths - August 2011
The Ninth Letter and the US Dollar Bill - August 2011
Out of Hours Fax - August 2011
Overseas Visitors - August 2011
Private Health Insurance - August 2011
Sessional GPs - August 2011
Sign of the Times? - August...
Dermatology GPWSIS - July 2011
Finger Pulse Oximeter - July 2011
Freudian Slip - July 2011
Heatwave Plan - July 2011
IGPCC Report - July 2011
Patient Records - July 2011
Radiology Requests at TST - July 2011
"Right Steps" - July 2011
Sustainability - July 2011
Avoiding Errors with Venous Coagulation Test Samples - May 2011
Community Right Steps - May 2011
Delayed Surgical Recovery in Early Dementia - May 2011
GP Recruitment - May 2011
Medical Indemnity Cover - May 2011
NHS Reform - May 2011
Sessional Doctors Column - May 2011
Stolen Identity - May 2011
Administration of Medicines to Children in Nurseries or Schools - April 2011
Children needing Behavoural and Emotional Support - April 2011
CQC Registration - April 2011
Health Needs of People with Severe Mental Illness - April 2011
QOF Changes - April 2011
So What's the Hurry - April 2011
AAA Screening - March 2011
Attached Staff - Licence to Occupy - March 2011
Cancer Services Network - March 2011
Domestic Violence Notifications - March 2011
End of Life Register - March 2011
Equity and Excellence - March 2011
LMC Categories for Safety Alerts - March 2011
Patient Leaflets for...
Colorectal Recovery Programme - February 2011
Managing the Workload - February 2011
NHS Sports Awards - February 2011
Pathology Workload - February 2011
Referral Letters - February 2011
Sessional Doctors - February 2011
Child Death Overview - December 2010
Early Supported Stroke Discharge - December 2010
Flu Immunisation to Pregnant Women - December 2010
Guidance for GPs on Medical Certs for DWP - December 2010
Housing Letters - December 2010
How Can We Make GP Commissioning Work - December 2010
'Just Can't...
Clopidogrel after Coronary Artery Stenting - November 2010
Healthcare in China - November 2010
Healthcare Needs of Armed Service Veterans - November 2010
LMC Position on Practice Level Budgets for PBC/GP Commissioning - November 2010
Norovirus Prevention - November 2010
Referral for Iron...
Change in Occupational Health Services- September 2010
NHS Treatment of Non UK Residents - September 2010
Second Opinion- September 2010
Time Limits for Registration of a Death- September 2010
2 Week Wait Referral Forms- September 2010
Administration of Treatment by HCAs - August 2010
Changes to DWP, DBD36, DS1500 forms and factual reports - August 2010
Changes to Parent Held Child Health Record - August 2010
Cost of Pharmaceutical Specials - August 2010
GPs Should..... - August 2010
Information Prescriptions - August...
A Once in a Lifetime Chance to Change the NHS - June 2010
Improvements in the Out of Hours Service - June 2010
Initiating DMARD Treatment in Primary Care - June 2010
Interim Seniority Factor 2010-11 - June 2010
Summary Care Roll Out - June 2010
Community Hospital Survey and GP Provision of Medical Cover - May 2010
Fifty Years Ago - May 2010
Medication for Patients with a PEG - May 2010
When Your Risk Calculation Goes Wrong:Error or Negligence - May 2010
Advance Care Planning Training for GPs- March 2010
Council Tax - Severe Mental Impairment- March 2010
Discharge Medication- March 2010
GPC Contributions- March 2010
Protecting Patients and their Doctors- March 2010
Self Employed Locums?- March 2010
Surgery Network for Practices- March 2010
Employment and Support Allowance - February 2010
New Med3 Forms from April 2010 - February 2010
The Future of Community Health Services in Somerset - February 2010
Vault Smears after Hysterctomy - February 2010
Child Death Overview Panel - January 2010
Cost of DH - January 2010
Employment and Support Allowance - January 2010
"Health Talk" - January 2010
Prescription Drugs - January 2010
Private Health Screening - January 2010
Use of NHS Logo - January 2010
Why Bother with the LMC - January 2010