PCNs
Written: 06th March 2025
Update: 2024/25 Capacity and Access Improvement Payment (CAIP) Online Access Component
I am writing to update all colleagues now the final month of the 2024/25 financial year has arrived.
As colleagues will recall the three components of the 2024/25 CAIP, collectively...
Financial Considerations in relation to the 20/21 GP Contract Agreement
PCN Scenario
Dear Colleagues
Please find a letter from the LMC containing the link to the GMS Ready Reckoner developed by the GPC in collaboration with NHS England to enable GP practices to better understand the...
The LMC has received and responded to numerous queries in relation to the delivery of the Extended Hours elements of the PCN DES which have now been collated and referenced to the contractual position which the LMC hopes will be helpful to all PCNs.
Delivery of the Extended Hours Access...
GMS/PMS Regulations and guidance do not make any reference to an age at which patients become eligible or entitled to view their own records independently.
However, it is generally accepted that:
“Fraser/Gillick-competent” children are entitled to access their medical records (or authorise...
Online access by patients
Online access to health records by patients appears to have much wider associated risks and potential workload for practices than the transactional on-line services of appointment booking and prescription ordering.
NHS England has confirmed that practices are not...
Written: 20 January 2025
I am writing to all colleagues regarding the letter sent by NHS England to remind all PCNs about their 2024/25 GP in ARRS funding.
Colleagues will recall that from October 2024, the ARRS was amended and additional funding provided to allow the recruitment of GPs under...
PCN DES participation and Implications of withdrawing from the DES
PCN DES: Update 23rd June 2020
Written: 15 January 2025
Update: Prospective Access to Medical Records
I am writing as a number of practices have contacted the LMC noting they had received recent communications from their ICB about their provision of Prospective Access to Medical Records.
Colleagues will recall the furore...
