The NHS App has been redesigned to make it more intuitive and simpler for patients to find and access services. Over the next few weeks, patients will be prompted to…
The NHS COVID Pass service will close on Monday 4 December and be unavailable to patients after this date. There are no longer any domestic requirements to demonstrate vaccination status,…
You are now allowed to securely destroy Lloyd George paper record envelopes, along with their contents, once they have been scanned and electronically stored in line with national standards. As…
Practices have reported that they are seeing an increase in requests for them to prescribe sedation for patients due to have radiological investigations such as MRI scans. Sedated patients should…
Practices contacted us to advise they had been told that they could not refer patients directly to fracture clinic. While most patients who need fracture clinic are referred directly after…
Hints and Tips is a quarterly bulletin designed to help our dispensing contractors with their interaction with NHS Prescription Services. Get Hints and Tips straight to your inbox and keep…
GPC England (GPCE) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and have issued a joint statement to alert their respective members to the details of the recently announced 6% pay…
Soon after the next SystmOne maintenance release, when receiving a GP2GP record from an EMIS practice (and sending to) where entries within the GP record have been marked as ‘do…
NEC have established a weekly scan-on-demand service for the practices for whom they store paper medical records. All practices involved should now be using this service. Records are requested electronically…
We have recently had contact from practices raising concerns that other organisations such as the Medical Examiner Team and Safeguarding Team have/or have requested access to the whole of their…
CQC New assessments From 21 November CQC will start using our new single assessment framework in the South region. Between 21 November and 4 December they will undertake a small…
A communication was recently sent to practices dated 13 September requesting GPs provide Biobank UK with access to consented patient data, the BMA was listed as endorsing the programme. The…