by IanL | Apr 16, 2025 | General Practice
An independent review, published by Professor Alice Sullivan, looking at data, statistics and research on sex and gender has identified a serious safeguarding risk in the current process of re-assigning gender and sex identity in medical records for children and young...
by IanL | Apr 8, 2025 | General Practice
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme is a government initiative aimed at supporting the decarbonisation of heating systems in buildings, including GP practices in England and Wales. Through this scheme, GP practices can receive grants to replace fossil fuel heating systems, such...
by IanL | Apr 2, 2025 | General Practice
Employment Law Changes, April 2025 (summary) Statutory sick pay will increase to £118.75 per week (from £116.75) Statutory maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental pay will increase to £187.18 per week (from £184.30) Statutory redundancy pay will increase...
by IanL | Mar 26, 2025 | General Practice
A robust recall system is a must – it ensures you meet your contractual obligation by extending invites to appropriate patients to manage long-term conditions and it also helps achieve targets, such as QOF, driving practice income. Recall systems can be very...
by IanL | Mar 13, 2025 | General Practice
As always at this time of year, the devil is in the detail and the detail is yet to be released (guidance/business rules, etc). However, below is a summary of top level changes: Overall increase of £889 million across core contract & Network Contract DES (7.2%...