Lincolnshire LMC | Guidance

Guidance

Directory of Service (DOS) guidance

This guidance shows you how to change you DOS status when at safe working capacity or when you have a service interruption so 111 and other system partners do not divert patients back to your practice that day. Lincolnshire ICB requested the emails be sent to them only and that they would liaise with the […]

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Change to referral process for Covid Medication Delivery Unit (CMDU)

24 October 2024

The referral process for access to the Covid treatment pathway (CMDU) is changing. This is a pathway that supports non-hospitalised patients who are at high-risk of developing severe complications from…

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Performance Matters – Accurate examination documentation.

15 October 2024

The LMC is regularly involved in representing and supporting doctors who have been identified as having “performance” issues. The LMC has identified a number of themes which recur, and this…

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Improved Single Point of Access to help find the best support for complex patients

15 October 2024

Health and social care professionals working across Lincolnshire are reminded that they have access to a dedicated, clinically led single point of access (SPA) to escalate challenges with patients who…

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Launch of BMA GP Safe Working Guidance Handbook

9 September 2024

Following the overwhelming YES vote in our ballot over the summer, practices are starting to take action as part of our ‘Protect your Patients and Protect your Practice‘ campaign. GPC…

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Guidance for GP Surgeries on Patients Recordings Consultations

27 August 2024

Introduction This guidance has been developed to assist GP surgeries in navigating the growing trend of patients requesting to record consultations. With patients increasingly using smartphones and other devices to…

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QOF Point Value and Prevalence

13 August 2024

We often get asked how disease register prevalence and list size affects the value of QOF. This article explains how QOF is calculated using your practice prevalence data from NHS…

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National Medical Examiner’s guidance for England and Wales

12 August 2024

Following regulations laid in Parliament in April 2024, the Death Certification Reforms come into force on 9 September 2024 (see the end of this summary for details of the regulations).…

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Update on HIV, Cardiovascular Risk and Statin use

26 July 2024

Summary People living with HIV (PLWH) are at higher risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Q-risk 3 does not adjust for HIV. A recent study has shown that there is a…

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Blue Badge requests

24 July 2024

Practices have contacted us advising that they are receiving more requests for information or GP reports for blue badge applications. Lincolnshire County Council website does not specifically say a GP…

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Requests for monitoring in general practice

24 July 2024

Practices contact us regularly reporting that they have been asked to monitor certain patients who have one of a group of conditions that has been diagnosed and at least initially…

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Eating Disorders – Responsibility to monitor physical health

23 July 2024

Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) have higher risk of physical illnesses, and it is expected that general practices will perform regular physical welfare checks for patients with SMI, this…

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