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Spring/Summer 2008

• 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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