The following is a list of obligations relating to Certification by GPs:
GPs are obliged to provide data essential for a clinical referral free of charge.
A GP has a statutory duty to supply a registered patient, free of charge, with any of the prescribed certificates set out in Schedule 4 of...
GPs receive many requests for reports from government organisations or other third parties. Remember that unless they are specified in legislation (e.g Death Certificates ) or NHS Regulations or contracts (e.g. Med3 Certificates) you do not have a contractual obligation to fill in these...
2024
Revised 'Which Covid-19 Vaccine?' poster
2023
Posters for Point of care recording - COVID-19 vaccinations
Access to vaccination for displaced population groups
Childrens programme update 11.10.23
COVID-19 vaccines - Quick reference guide
NHSE National Protocols for COVID-19
Covid-19...
DOLS CONTACT DETAILS: (Please do not call Somerset LMC)
Somerset County Council
dolsinformation@somerset.gov.uk this is a constantly monitored mail box Monday to Friday.
DoLS administrators
Sarah Baker 01278 447702
Melissa Chivers 01278 449838
SCC Mental Capacity Act and DoLS...
The DH commissioned from the Law Society a comprehensive guide to the law relating to deprivation of liberty safeguards. This has a helpful section on care homes and other health settings.
Full Guidance
It's easy to assume that domestic abuse only affects partners or ex-partners within a relationship. However, an increasingly common form of abuse, with potentially devastating results, is set to challenge those inherent beliefs. In 2014/15, 3% of the approx. 700 referrals to Somerset's...
Safeguarding Children - A Beginner's Guide (with acknowledgements to Wessex LMCs)
RCGP supplementary guide to safeguarding training requirements for all primary care staff
Although the intercollegiate document 'Safeguarding Children and Young people: roles and competences for health care...
The Somerset GP Education Trust (SGPET) was established in 2008 and is committed to supporting Somerset GPs in their learning, work and professional development through the provision and coordination of a wide range of educational activities throughout Somerset. We recognise the importance of...
There are no statutory regulations that specify how often primary care staff should be trained. Fundamentally, it is important that if anything untoward happened in your practice, the Partners could stand in front of a coroner or judge and justify that the training they had provided for their...
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...
These clinical toolkits have been developed in partnership between the RCGP and their funding and delivery partners. The resources have been created for primary healthcare professionals, patients and carers. These toolkits can be used to assist in the delivery of safe and effective care to...
If a child has a very poor attendance record an Educational Welfare Officer may be asked to investigate. EWOs are employed by the local authority and past of their role is to prepare the case if an authority is considering taking legal action against parents or guardians for failing to send...
Since 1st April 2008 Child Death Review (CDR) processes have been mandatory for Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) in England.
CDR includes two interrelated processes that may trigger a serious case review:
review of all deaths under the age of 18 by the local Child Death Overview...
Schools are under increasing pressure to reduce non-attendance and will make contact with parents/guardians if there is a concern that any missed schooling is not justified. When parents turn up to ask for a letter or certificate about a possible health problem they may see this as a way of...
Safeguarding Adults is about organisations working together to protect an adult's right to live in free from abuse and neglect. It is also about ma king sure that, wherever possible, organisations listen and give regard to the adult's wishes, choices and feelings. The aim is to safeguard adults...
Safeguarding children arrangements in Somerset
Structure chart
Multi-agency communication; New safeguarding children arrangements in Somerset
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This policy document Resolving...
A new public awareness raising campaign, called 'Thinking it? Report it', launched in Somerset encouraging people to make contact with Adult Social Care if they think someone is being harmed.
The campaign has been launched with the direct support of the Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board...
