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27th July 2023

NICE News for Health and Social Care - July 23


Guidance and advice published in July 2023...

27th June 2023

NICE News for Health and Social Care - June 23


Guidance and advice published in June 2023...

25th May 2023

Core contract changes and requirements of the imposed GP contract 2023/24


Access requirements The GMS Regulations have been updated to clarify that patients should be offered an assessment of need, or signposted to an appropriate service, at first contact with the practice. 

Access to records The deadline for full implementation of prospective patient online access to their records will be extended to 31 October. 

Cloud-based telephony A requirement will be introduced for practices to procure their telephony solutions only from an NHS framework once their current telephony contracts expire.  

GP registration requirements The GMS contract regulations will be amended to remove the reference to the term ’medical cards’ within the registration requirements. 

 

24th May 2023

NICE News for Health and Social Care - May 23


Latest guidance and advice from NICE.

15th May 2023

BMA Wellbeing resources


As we continue to face overwhelming pressures in general practice, the BMA encourage practices to focus on their own team’s wellbeing and take some time to meet to reflect on their wellbeing and what they can do to protect it. This will meet the requirements of the QOF targets in the GP contract to do your quality improvement project on staff wellbeing.

The BMA have produced a document for practices which includes some tangible recommendations and tools for managing workload and reflecting on wellbeing.

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