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Who can issue fit notes?
DWP amended legislation from 1st July 2022 to now enable nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists to certify fit notes in addition to doctors. HCPs from a range of disciplines... more
3 Aug 2022Digital GP Registration Service Pilot - NHS Digital
The Register with a GP surgery service will provide all practices in England with an online fully integrated option for patients to register with them. This will help reduce th... more
2 Aug 2022Appointment Analysis
Do you analyse your appointments? Do you tidy up your slot types? Have you correctly mapped your slot types to the national slot types?... more
1 Aug 2022NHS Digital - FOR ACTION
The temporary changes made to GP Connect and Summary Care Record Additional Information in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will continue in place beyond the end of the Control of Patient Information... more
7 Jul 2022IT training for Primary Care Staff
Since the turn of the year, requests for IT related training topics have quadrupled. We believe it is because Primary Care staff have had such a tough 2 years, practices are now looking at giving some... more
6 Jul 2022NHS e-Referral Service: Uploading HTML files being withdrawn
The ability to upload HTML files into NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) is being withdrawn from early June due to potential security risks. Advice on how to save unsupported files such as HTML to... more
19 May 2022Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (Minor Illness)
A new service where patients can have a face-to-face or remote consultation with a community pharmacist for minor illness - helping to alleviate demand on general practice.... more
6 May 2022Updated SOP - Symptomatic and asymptomatic staff testing
Staff testing is an important component of the infection prevention and control procedures which all NHS organisations and staff have a duty to follow.... more
1 May 2022Primary Care Recruitment
Finding the right talent for your vacancies is a challenge and can be very costly; most of us underestimate the cost of recruitment by about 90%, we do not take into account the time it takes out o... more
1 Mar 2022Office 2010 and IE end dates
If you still use Office 2010 you must ensure you have upgraded all of your PC’s prior to the end support date of 1st May 2022. Whilst the software will still work it will be unsupported, this makes... more
1 Mar 2022