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 Devon LMC "Hot Topics" & Local Issues (Red items are new)

Dedicated Local Pages:

• NHS Devon White Paper Summary Slides andTimetable for Action
• Publication of the Government White Paper
• Revision to the Operating Framework for the NHS in England
• Patient Group Direction - Administration of MMR Vaccine
• Plymouth - Consultation looks at Patient's Choice of Surgery
• Devon Drug and Alcohol Action Team
• Safeguarding Update from Devon Police
• Advice Re: Patients Stranded Abroad Needing Prescriptions - 19th April 2010
• HPA Communicable Disease News
• Quality Care Commission: Your Quick Guide to Registration
• Ofqual Letter about Pupils Missing Exams - 30th March
• Sexually Transmitted Infection Foundation Course - 23rd March
• GMC - Revalidation Consultation - 8th March
• Guidance on "Fit Notes" - 4th March
• Devon Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)  
• HPU (Health Protection Unit - & H1N1 Flu Guidance)  - Updated 9 Feb
• Devon and Exeter Medical Society
• Domestic Violence and Abuse in Devon - ADVA and Men Safe
• LMC Buying Groups Federation website

BMA/GPC/RCGP/Local

• Goodwill and Dispensing - GPC Briefing - Link
• Revalidation Consulatation: the way ahead - Link
• GPC Newsletter 19th March 2010 - Link, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4
• Reviewing PMS Contractual Arrangements - Guidance for PMS Practices - Link
• GPC Annual Report 2010 - Link
• BMA Letter re: Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body: 39th Report 2010 - Link
• GPC Summary Care Records Guidance Feb 2010 - Link
• Summary Care Records "Opt Out" Form - Link
• BMA response to out-of-hours report - 4 Feb 10 - Link
• BMA - New strategy paves the way for a smokefree society, say doctors - 1 Feb 10 - Link
• BMA calls for action to eliminate child labour and dangerous working conditions in the production of NHS supplies - 27 Jan 10 - Link
• BMA sets out its proposal for how to reform general practice boundaries - 26 Jan - Link
• Direct payments for NHS services could undermine equality, BMA warns - 22 Jan 10 - Link
• BMA/RCN Humanitarian Fund announces - £25,000 for health projects in the developing world - 22 Jan 10 - Link
• GPC News Page... and RCGP News Page

DH/NHS Confed/C4H/NAO:

• DH - Your Choice of GP - 12th April 2010 - Link
• DH - Access to health services for military veterans: priority treatment - 9 Feb - Link
• DH - Swine flu vaccine continues to provide vital protection says Chief Medical Officer - 4 Feb - Link
• DH - GP out of hours services: letter from David Nicholson - 4 Feb 10 - Link
• DH - Greater improvements to GP out of hours care - 4 Feb 10 - Link
• DH - New NHS campaign reveals unseen alcohol damage - 28 Jan - Link
• DH - First Doctors to Undergo Strengthened Assessments - 26 Jan - Link

Kings Fund:

• KF: Getting the measure of quality: Opportunities and challenges - 21 Jan - Link
• KF responds to the NHS Operating Framework 2010/11 - Link
• KF: Health leaders must be honest about financial challenges ahead - Link
• KF: How cold will it be? Prospects for NHS funding: 2011-2017 - Link

Conferences and Events:

• Practical Clinical Allergy Course and Programme
• National Education Programme for GPs - Health and work in General Practice - Plymouth 23rd Sept
• GP Paediatric Workshops October & November 2010 - Application Form
• Devon DAAT Shared Care Developments in Devon - Application form