Newsletter Index

Summer 2007
  • Health Visitor Review
  • GP Sub/LMC Committee
  • Scottish National LMC Conference
  • UK National LMC Conference 14th & 15th June 2007
  • GPC News
  • LMC Elections
  • Health Centre Charges
  • PSD Newsletter
  • Royal Medical Benevolent Fund
  • MMR Vaccine and Adult Foreign Travel
  • Wart Clinic
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Certificates/Reports/Certificates
  • Westmark Referrals and Ambulance Required
  • Slimming Referral
  • Pregnant Patients in Contact with Chickenpox
  • UK Biobank Research Project
  • Healthy Start
  • Witness for the Destruction of Controlled Drugs
  • Ear Syringing by Health Care Assistant (HCAs)
  • Adults with Incapacity Act
  • Practice Nurse Training Fro Chronic Disease Management LES
  • IT Training for Sessional GPs
  • IT Training for Primary Care Staff
  • Euro Business Guide
  • Private and NHS Care
  • Service Level Agreements and Third Party Software
  • GP Attendance at Child Protection Case Conference
  • Glasgow Locum Group
  • Counselling Services for GPs and their Families
  • Finally...

Almost Spring 2007

  • End of Year Meeting
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Scottish LMC Conference
  • Sharpsbins
  • Cremation Certificates
  • ECS Record and Withdrawal of Patient Consent
  • Patient Group Directives (PGDs)
  • Depakote (semisodium valproate) Monitoring
  • Adults with Incapacity Act
  • Certificates, Reports, Certificates
  • Prescribing
  • Patient Preference of Practitioner
  • Destruction of Controlled Drugs
  • Referral to Mental Health Services
  • Ian@glasgow-lmc
  • QoF Year End Procedures for Clyde Practices
  • QoF Points - Mental Health 7
  • Blue Badge Scheme, Renfrewshire Council
  • Ambulance Booking, Clyde Practices
  • Ambulance Booking, Other Issues
  • Counselling Services for GPs and their Families
  • VAT on Private GP Services
  • Issue of Med 3 and Med 5 Forms
  • Practice email address
  • Employing Foreign Nationals
  • Supplementary Performers List
  • Glasgow Locum Group
  • and Finally...

Winter 2006

  • Glasgow and Clyde Appointments to SGPC
  • Joint Inspection of Children's Services and Inspection of Social Work Service (Scotland) Act 2006
  • IT GP Systems Showcase
  • Workforce Planning Survey
  • Mental Health Act
  • Disclosure Checks for Staff
  • Travel Clinics
  • Collaborative Arrangements
  • Car Break-in and Theft of Medical Bag
  • Interpreter Services
  • Expected Death and Moving the Body
  • Increased Utility Charges in Health Centres
  • Clozapine Monitoring
  • Certificates, Reports, Certificates
  • Ordering of Ambulances
  • Unscheduled Vaccine Reports
  • Euro Business Guide
  • Zero Tolerance
  • Clyde Practices - Arrangements for Dealing with Violent Patients
  • Carers and Medication Help
  • Court Witness and Fees
  • LMC Training Courses Cancellation Fee
  • Ian@Glasgow-LMC
  • Retirement for Superannuation Purposes - Single Handed GPs
  • Non Principal Representative Co-opted to GP Sub/LMC
  • Anticoagulation and Patients who DNA
  • Hepititis B Vaccination for Students
  • Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
  • Testing for Patients Attending Private IVF Clinics
  • Date for Diary
  • Counselling Services for GPs and their Families
  • Christmas and New Year Holidays
  • and Finally...

Spring/Summer 2006

  • Welcome
  • New Committee
  • NES Drugs Misuse
  • The New Mental Health Act
  • 24 Hours Retirement for Superannuation Purposes
  • Working with Suppliers of Clinical Products
  • Labels
  • VAT
  • More VAT
  • IT Systems Change
  • Waiting Lists Initiatives
  • Direct Services for Young People
  • Certificates, Reports, Certificates
  • Enhanced Services Update
  • QoF Update
  • Chaperones in Consultations
  • Ian@Glasgow-LMC
  • Agenda for Change
  • District Nurse Referral Forms
  • 24 Hour Checks on New Born Babies
  • Performing Rights Society and Licences (PRS)
  • Blood Tests and Screening for Private IVF Treatment
  • Hep B Vaccination and Serology Checking for Drug Misuse Patient
  • Changes to Cytology Result Pads GRI
  • Read the Small Print
  • and Finally...

Autumn 2005

  • LMC Elections
  • Enhanced Services
  • Near Patient Testing
  • Cancer Guidelines
  • Interpreters
  • Argyll & Clyde
  • New Mental Health Act
  • Admission to the Brownlee
  • Registration
  • Over the Counter Medications
  • Completion of Care Commission Reference Form
  • Disposal of Controlled Drugs
  • Jury Service
  • Your Questions, Our Answers
  • Visitors from Overseas
  • Emergency Care Summary
  • IT Systems Choice
  • Superannuation (not)
  • Occupational Health and Hep B
  • CHI Numbers
  • Counselling Services for GPs and their Families
  • Pathways to Work
  • and Finally...

Spring/Summer2005

  • Welcome
  • Changes to the GP Subcommittee/LMC Committee
  • Your Questions Our Answers
  • LES's, NES's and DES's
  • Certificates, Reports, Certificates
  • Immunisation and Vaccination
  • Waiting Lists and GGHB Database
  • Agenda for Change
  • GP Care
  • Locum Insurance
  • 0870 Telephone Numbers
  • New NHS Education for Scotland Website
  • Methylphenidate Prescribing
  • Research Projects
  • Disability Discrimination Act (D.D.A.)
  • Scottish LMC Conference
  • Payment Verification and TRs
  • Ian@glasgow-lmc.co.uk
  • Phlebotomy Training
  • IT&M
  • Pre-Chemotherapy bloods via central lines
  • Patient Group Directivesbr>
  • Confidentiality and Practice Visits
  • VAT on PCD employed Practice Staff
  • Psst..Guess What
  • And Finally..

December 2004

  • Welcome
  • Your Questions Our Answers
  • CHPs and the Disaggregation of the Primary Care Division
  • Zero Tolerance
  • Dental Treatment for Patients not Registered with a Dentist
  • Telephone Enquiries
  • Central Stores
  • Diabetic Pre-Clinic Bloods
  • Certificates, Reports, Certificates
  • LMC and GP Subcommittee Elections
  • GP Awards
  • Agenda for Change
  • Counselling Services for GPs and their Families
  • Visitors from Overseas
  • Resignation and Retiral from Greater Glasgow Medical List
  • Violence Against Doctors
  • Sterile Services at Ross Hall Hospital
  • East Dumbartonshire Single Shared Assessment Forms
  • Christmas and New Year Holidays
  • CanaRx Services
  • Patients with Communications Difficulties
  • Finally..

July 2004

  • The New Contract
  • Your Questions Our Answers
  • Race Relations Policy
  • Secondary Care Services
  • BMA Model Publication Scheme
  • Phlebotomy Training for Practice Staff
  • Practice Nurse Advisor, Greater Glasgow Primary Care Division
  • Prescribing
  • Recommending Fees
  • Smoking Cessation
  • Non nGMS Queries Answered
  • Certificates, Certificates, Certificates..
  • Waiting List Target Times - Sending Patients to Named Consultant
  • Adult with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 - Medical Treatment Certificates
  • Health Council Awards
  • Dr George Barlow, M.B.E.
  • Practice Leaflets
  • PCD Staff
  • Ian@glasgow-lmc
  • E-mail Address
  • Practice Voluntary Levy
  • Finally..

November 2003

  • Not only the New GP Contract News
  • Louise@glasgow-lmc
  • Ian@glasgow-lmc.co.uk
  • Mercury Sphygmomanometers
  • OTC Medications
  • Interdisciplinary Response and Intervention Service
  • Certifcates, Certificates, Certificates..
  • Medical Information for Homeless Housing Applicants - West Dumbartonshire Council
  • Policy on Initmate Examination
  • Data Protection Act - Verification of Claim
  • Shared Care Protocols
  • Pneumococcal Immunisation
  • X-Ray Reporting at Stobhill Hospital
  • Dexa Service
  • Oral Cancer Awareness Campaign
  • Reduction in the numbers of GP Registrars
  • Adults With Incapacity Act - Some Frequently Asked Questions
  • Hypertension Project
  • Occupational Health and Hep 'B'
  • BMA/Law Society Consent Form
  • A Word of Warning
  • Finally..
  • GP Subcommittee and LMC Elections

July 2003

  • Dr Alasdair Short
  • New Contract Result
  • Provision of Medical Reports to Support Applications for Central Heating ect.
  • STD Health Adviser
  • Nursing Homes PMS
  • SIGN Meetings
  • Pointless Paperwork
  • Fees for Mental Welfare Commission Reports
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Practice Nurse Association
  • Staff Budgets
  • Cervical Cytology
  • Dovedale Counselling
  • Research and Ethics Committees in Greater Glasgow
  • Supplementary List for Non-Principals
  • Shared Care Protocols
  • Pneumonococcal Vaccines
  • IT Update
  • IT Maintenance
  • Speakers Corner
  • Mercury Sphygmomanometers
  • Nursery Requests for OTC Medication
  • Duration Certificates - Release of Information to Life Assurance Companies after Death
  • HIV, STIs and Insurers
  • Fit to Join the Army
  • Name and Shame
  • Finally..
  • Fitness to Work Certificate

December 2002

  • New Contract
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • 48 Hour Access
  • Practice Pharmacy Support
  • The National UK LMC Conference
  • GP Bag Sharps Boxes
  • Travel Jags and Fees
  • Ambulance Services
  • Parking Permits for GPs
  • Disclosure Scotland
  • Pointless Paperwork
  • BMA Counselling Line
  • Winter Planning
  • Shared Care Protocols
  • Supplementary List for Non-Principals
  • NHS 24
  • Requests for Weekly Prescribing
  • Nursing Home and Nursery Requests for Permission to Administer Over the Counter Medication
  • Green Book Waiting Times
  • Seniority Payments and Career Breaks
  • Retainee Fees - Maternity and Sickness
  • Speaker's Corner
  • Dovedale Counselling
  • LMC Offices - Christmas and New Year

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