Viewpoint April 2020
Please see attached April edition of the LMC Newsletter Viewpoint and accompanying documents containing information relating to topical matters listed below:
- GP and practice COVID-19 toolkit
- PPE
- PPE Survey to Leeds Practices
- Identifying high risk patients and shielding
- Self-referrals to the NHS Volunteer Responders scheme
- Leeds CCG daily bulletins
- Bank holiday arrangements
- Practice expenses for bank holidays
- NHSEI letter on second phase of NHS response to COVID-19
- Testing
- Death in Service benefits
- BMA COVID-19 locum contract for temporary engagements
- Verification of death and cremation forms
- NHS111 CCAS appointments update
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a notifiable disease
- GP contract changes
- Primary Care Network DES guidance
- QOF year-end process
- Remote review of long term conditions
- Remote consultations
- JCVI statement on immunisation prioritisation
- Advance care planning
- The Leeds CCG advance care planning webpage
- Returners guidance
- GP Induction and Refresher scheme and International GP Recruitment Scheme
- GP retention scheme
- GP trainees on Tier 2 visas
- GP trainers and employment tribunals
- NHS staff absence tracker
- Carrying over annual leave
- Clinical negligence indemnity
- Temporary removal of the routine D4 medical
- DVLA medicals
- IR35 tax deferral
- Ethical guidance on COVID-19
- NHS Volunteer Responders: open to referrals from health professionals
- LMC Covid19 Peer Support Programme – extending support to the wider practice team
- Individual coaching support for primary care staff
- Wellbeing
- NHSEI health and wellbeing offer for NHS staff
- Practitioner Health Update
- Outpatient parenteral antibiotic treatment service
- Public satisfaction with NHS and social care increases in annual British Social Attitudes survey
- Delivery of medicines – Covid-19
- Letter from Yorkshire Ambulance Service to all GPs
- GPDF Newsletter
- LMC Buying Group – April Update
- Local vacancies
Supplementary information
- BMA letter to Simon Stevens 28042020.pdf
- COVID-19-response-primary-care-and-community-health-support-care-home-residents.pdf
- Delivery of medicines messages FINAL PDF.pdf
- Remote review of long term conditions rv.pdf
- Shielded patients NHSEI update 23.04.20 rv.pdf
- YAS Working Together in the Pandemic Letter to GPs[109361].pdf