🩺 Wakefield LMC Newsletters
Browse our monthly newsletters for key updates on GP contracts, workforce, prescribing, and local healthcare issues. Each edition includes practical guidance for practices across Wakefield.
📘 July 2025 Newsletter
- 🔹 Contract negotiations: update following the special LMC conference
- 🔹 GPC England statement on collective action and patient care
- 🔹 Wakefield ICB data requests and implications for practices
- 🔹 Advice on safe working guidance and workload prioritisation
- 🔹 Ongoing issues with hospital communications and follow-up delays
- 🔹 Local workforce update and GP recruitment challenges
📥 Download July Newsletter (Word Doc)
📅 Published: July 2025
📘 June 2025 Newsletter
- 🔹 General Practice pressures and GPC England contract update
- 🔹 New BMA guidance on safe working and triage protocol
- 🔹 ICB data requests and LMC advice on practice boundaries
- 🔹 CQC inspection approach – updates and reminders
- 🔹 Secondary care workload transfer issues raised with MYHT
- 🔹 Current state of GP workforce and local recruitment concerns
📥 Download June Newsletter (Word Doc)
📅 Published: June 2025
📘 May 2025 Newsletter
- 🔹 Ongoing contract negotiations and BMA guidance
- 🔹 GPC England and NHS England discussions update
- 🔹 Safe working: BMA toolkit and patient triage principles
- 🔹 New advice regarding the “10 patient contacts per session” principle
- 🔹 GP workforce statistics and retention commentary
- 🔹 Concerns around delays in secondary care letters
📥 Download May Newsletter (Word Doc)
📅 Published: May 2025
📘 April 2025 Newsletter
- 🔹 Reflections following GPC England’s March conference
- 🔹 Safe working guidance and triage prioritisation advice
- 🔹 Clinical letters: clarity on managing and prioritising volumes
- 🔹 Feedback and concerns regarding pharmacy stock levels
- 🔹 Encouragement for staff flu and COVID vaccination uptake
- 🔹 GP workforce pressures and local data update
📥 Download April Newsletter (Word Doc)
📅 Published: April 2025
📘 March 2025 Newsletter
- 🔹 GPC England’s conference outcomes and potential action
- 🔹 Clarification around Safe Working Guidance and visit prioritisation
- 🔹 Escalating pressures on practices and staff morale concerns
- 🔹 Discussion of clinical correspondence volume and prioritisation
- 🔹 Access to flu and COVID vaccinations for practice staff
- 🔹 Information sharing from ICBs and workload implications
📥 Download March Newsletter (Word Doc)
📅 Published: March 2025
📘 February 2025 Newsletter
- 🔹 Further developments on GPC England’s special conference
- 🔹 Clarification on workforce data sharing with ICB
- 🔹 Practice and PCN participation in prescribing incentive schemes
- 🔹 Update on IIF indicators and workload for 2024/25
- 🔹 Medication supply delays and community pharmacy pressures
- 🔹 GP workforce figures – local and national trends
📥 Download February Newsletter (Word Doc)
📅 Published: February 2025
📘 January 2025 Newsletter
- 🔹 GPC England’s planned March conference
- 🔹 Local stance on the Quality Improvement Prescribing Scheme
- 🔹 Late home visiting service capacity issues
- 🔹 Neurology referral rejections and updated MYHT position
- 🔹 Flu season guidance & mask recommendations
- 🔹 New NHS dispensing flexibility (OPD ±10%) from January 2025
📥 Download January Newsletter (Word Doc)
📅 Published: January 2025