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Dedicated Local Pages:

• GMC - Revalidation Consultation - 8th March
• Guidance on "Fit Notes" - 4th March
• BT Priority Fault Repair Service for Primary Care Organisations - 2nd March
• Anthrax in Heroin Users need to know, Q & A, Advice - 1st March
• Devon LMC Newsletter "Purple Pages" - 9 Feb
• A Tribute to Dr Kieran Sweeney - 3 Feb
• 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

• 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 - 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:

• Caring for Patients with Demetia - Plymouth 22nd April 2010
• Focus on Primary Palliative Care – Exeter 3 Mar 
• 3rd Sports and Exercise (SEM) Conference - Plymouth 12 March 2010
• BASPCAN - Understanding Fabricated & Induced Illness - Fri 12 Mar 10 
• Royal Society of Medicine: Peninsula Allergy Conference - 23 Apr - Dartington Hall
• RCGP Tamar Faculty Annual Study Day - The Patient Experience - 28 Apr - Updated...
• 10th Peninsula Cancer Research Network Symposium - 7 May - Dartington Hall
• Conference: 10th Annual Plymouth Symposium - Thursday 20 May 2010
• RCGP - Minor Surgery Course - Buckfast Abbey - 27/28 May 2010