Updates - Primary care guidance -
Community Pharmacist Consultation Service FAQs
The service is now operating in NEL. You can find a set of detailed FAQs on it attached.
Urgent message from cervical screening London for tQuest users
On Wednesday 23rd Feb – between 9am – 1pm, tQuest will be taken offline as we will be performing a system upgrade. During this time no-one will be able to access or request cervical screening via tQuest.
COVID-19 treatment policy update
An updated UK COVID-19 treatment policy has been published to provide two additional antiviral treatment options for non-hospitalised patients from 10 February 2022.
NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)
The service helps ensure that patients see the right healthcare professional in a timely fashion and can free up capacity for patients with higher acuity needs.
How can GPs effectively care for patients with long-term conditions in the current climate?
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
GP staff Covid tests update
In order to ensure that all practices have sufficient supplies of Lateral Flow Tests, we are arranging for a courier to drop off a contingency supply of these testing kits to every practice in the next few days.
Primary care preparedness for a potential surge in Omicron cases
We are advising practices to put in place a number of measures to ensure that you are prepared in the eventuality of another covid surge taking place.
Waltham Forest: Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS)
IRIS is a specialist domestic violence and abuse (DVA) training, support and referral programme for general practices.
Safe Connections: a new service to help reduce the risk of suicide in north east London
Partners across north east London have been working on new services across each borough in north east London to help prevent suicide and to provide additional support to local residents.
Primary care data gathering programme
NHS North East London CCG is involved in a national estates programme being undertaken by NHS England in order to learn more about GP practice premises. Practice Managers will be contacted in August 2021 by AMP Infrastructure, Archus or GB Partnerships, who are providing specialist support and resource to undertake the work on our behalf, with their relevant dataset for review and further completion.
London Ambulance Service GP newsletter
London Ambulance Service's July 2021 newsletter for GPs in north east London.
Arrangements for primary care from 19 July 2021
Letter outlining the continuing expectations across primary care in relation to access, infection prevention and control, and continuing contractual/regulatory arrangements from 19 July.