Updates - Sharing best practice -
Barking and Dagenham diabetes programme tackling health inequalities wins 2022 HSJ Partnership Award
An innovative diabetes education programme that is supporting people in Barking and Dagenham has been crowned the Most Impactful Project Addressing Health Inequalities at this year’s HSJ Partnership Awards.
Whipps Cross Voices
Whipps Cross Voices celebrates the history of Whipps Cross Hospital, capturing stories and experiences of current and former staff and patients and the local community.
NEL event to discuss how you think we should be shaping our vaccination services
We would like to invite you to a NEL event on 10 March from 6:30-7:30 pm where we will discuss the 2022/23 Autumn Vaccination Programme and how this can be delivered in General Practice.
Your opportunity to inform staff training in general practice
You are invited to take part in a survey as part of our work with Health Education England on training needs to support general practice staff
Barriers to registering new patients
The GLA is urgently seeking to recruit general practice staff to participate in research exploring barriers faced by GP surgeries in registering new patients without proof of ID or address.
Digital Read Service provides more accurate reading of Lateral flow test (LFT) results
The Digital Read Service offers a more accurate reading of your COVID-19 LFT results.
Blog: stratification tools to help primary care safely prioritise patients with LTCs
UCLPartners has built a suite of comprehensive search tools for EMIS and SystmOne that help primary care to safely prioritise care for patients with long term conditions at the same time as responding to the COVID surge and the vaccination programme.
BHR - Transforming phlebotomy clinics presentation
Tracy Rubery (Director of Transformation) and Jeremy Kidd (Deputy Director of Transformation for Planned Care) recently presented at a Transforming Patient Experience in Phlebotomy Clinics conference. They talked about the BHR phlebotomy pilot and shared learning on how other clinics can transform their phlebotomy service.
Barking, Havering & Redbridge GP practices - New Incentive Scheme for SMI Physical Health January 2022
Please see the specification and application form for a new LIS to be introduced from the beginning of January 2022.
Nursing Associate Trainee of the Year Award
There continue to be opportunities for PCNs and GPs in NEL to support a staff member to join the Apprentice Nursing Associate programme.
The London Health Equity Festival invite
The London Health Equity Festival, held on the evenings of 21st and 27th September, will reimagine Primary Care Networks through the lens of fairer environments, resourceful people, strong communities and resilient systems.
National changes to patient safety reporting in primary care
Learn From Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) has replaced the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) - used to report patient safety events. You will need to sign up to use the new system.