To reduce the amount of printing when a patient leaves the practice, the receiving practice should validate and file the record as soon as the patient has been registered.
Once the record has been filed by the receiving practice and the patient has been deducted, the sending practice will be...
Medical Records - Adopted Children (with acknowledgements to Wessex LMCs)
Under adoption legislation an adopted child is given a new NHS number and all previous medical information relating to that child is put into a newly created health record. Any information relating to the identity or...
Updated contact details for GPs requesting a patient's British armed forces medical records
When an individual leaves the British armed forces, they are given a copy of their summary medical record, together with information on how to obtain their full service medical record if needed. This...
NHS England has worked with patient groups and advocacy organisations to produce guidance on registering with a GP. It clarifies that patients do not legally need to provide documentary evidence of identity, immigration status or proof of address, to register with a GP. Practices should not...
A good patient-doctor relationship, based on mutual respect and trust, is the cornerstone of good patient care. The removal of patients from practice lists should continue to be an exceptional and rare event, and a last resort in an impaired patient-practice relationship. When trust has...
Everyone who approaches a practice for treatment should be offered NHS primary care
The LMC understands that the Department of Health lawyers looking at the charging of overseas visitors for NHS services have decided that the GMS Regulations - as currently written - imply that any...
New patient health questionnaires (Ukraine and Russian translations) now available - 13 October 2022
GP practices can now download new patient health questionnaires with bi-lingual English/Ukrainian and English/Russian translations for people arriving in the UK from Ukraine, supporting...
