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The General Practitioners Committee (GPC) and NHS Employers have published joint supplementary guidance for the 2011/12 QOF quality and productivity (QP) indicators. This guidance applies in England only and is intended to assist practices ...
The BMA has released guidance to clarify the difference between the Connecting for Health 'Information Governance Toolkit' (online self-assessment, required for CfH services), and the separate 'Information Governance Training Tool' (se...
The Ethnicity and First Language DES was withdrawn on 1 April 2011. This DES was intended as a two-year catch up to enable practices to record ethnicity and first language for patients already on their list, with a third year extension for ...
More than eighty people attended the LMC’s two spring mini-conference ‘Re-shaping Services in NHS Nottinghamshire County’ on 7 April and 'Re-shaping Services in NHS Nottingham City' on 14 April.
Delegates list...
Education, training and workforce
That conference views with alarm the proposals outlined in “Developing the Healthcare Workforce” and believes that GPC should lobby the DH to ensure that successors to W...
Negotiations between the GPC and NHS Employers have now concluded and agreement has been reached with the Health Departments in England, Scotland and Wales.
The GMS contract changes for 2011/12 are explained in detail in a letter wh...
The Department of Health has released a list of consortia's functions: 'The Functions of GP Commissioning Consortia: A W...
Nottinghamshire LMC Ltd has held its first primary care premises symposium. More than 30 GPs and practice managers attended the event at the Park Inn hotel in Nottingham on 17 February 2011.
Delegates listened to talks fro...
NHS providers will not be allowed to compete for services on price, and the any willing provider policy will not apply to all services, the DoH has revealed.
A letter from NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has confirmed that G...
Arrangements governing the supply of excess ’flu vaccines to other practices
Further to previous emails from the PCT and LMC concerning ’flu vaccine procurement, we would like to clarify advice about inf...