Topic: Practice Support
How to take good clinical and dermoscopic photographs The Primary Care Dermatology Society (PCDS) have a very comprehensive guide on how to take good clinical and dermoscopic photographs . There are three videos which clinical staff will find very helpful they are titled, How to take good Clinical images How to take good Dermoscopic images […]
South West Ambulance Service Trust New Feedback and Incident Reporting Process December 2025 – Update: Paramedic Calls to GP Practices South West LMCs have been working closely with SWASFT following a significant rise in paramedics contacting GP practices for advice. After a series of meetings, SWASFT has revised its guidance, with the intention of reducing unnecessary […]
Applying for ill health pension benefits Sadly our colleagues can get ill at work and there are situations where ill health retirement needs to be considered, but where do you look and how do you know if you are eligible? To be eligible for ill health retirement you need to have been in the NHS […]
GMS Contract Quality Outcomes Framework 2025/26 Quality and Outcome Framework Guidance 2025/26 2025/26 Quality and Outcomes Framework Guidance
Please find below updated contract of employment and staff handbook drafted specifically for Medical Practices. These can be used for all employees other than salaried GPs within a GMS PMS Practice. As before, both the contract of employment and staff handbook contain clauses with square brackets. This denotes clauses which may be removed specific to […]
The Somerset and Wiltshire representative is Nicky Billington Practice Manager for Wells City Practice email contact May 2025 – The IGPM have released the new campaign to coincide with National Receptionists Day on Wednesday 15th May 2025. Here is a link to the youtube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlETspRMlA The Institute of General Practice Management (IGPM) was formed in […]
Top Tips 2024 National Funding Framework (NFF) Top Tip The only incentivised element for NFF in year one is Public Health indicator – Hypertension. We have included a link to the section in the specification, please read carefully, the deadline for the QI project will be upon you soon 15th July Enhanced Services Local and […]
Practice Guides Workflow for GP referrals SMES Workflow for GP secretarial staff ME Letter for relatives Certification of death Death Certification Reforms Quick Guide – Valid from the 9th September 2024 Somerset Medical Examiner Service Referral Form Somerset Medical Examiner Service (SMES) The statutory implementation of the Medical Examiner System is approaching and will impact all […]
Template letter to decline Inclisiran prescribing request – for practice use only Inclisiran Update – 13 June 2024 We would like to highlight our previous steer that primary care should avoid prescribing Inclirisan until we have successfully negotiated a guaranteed long-term funding stream for this work with our ICB. This is consistent with advice from […]
Think Measles! Measles guidance – cases of measles are on the increase in the Southwest, below are the gudiance resources from NHS Somerset. 7 actions to identify – are you measles prepared? Initial actions required when assessing for suspected measles Triage pathway for suspected measles Guidance for risk assessment and infection prevention and control measures […]