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Primary Care Bulletin - today's round-up
27 May 2021
Dear colleagues,
The COVID-19 vaccination programme, the biggest in health service history, continues its rollout to people in their thirties. It is now open to people aged 30 – 31 and this cohort can book at over 1,600 available locations. The plan remains to offer first doses to all adults by the end of July. Thank you once more for your continued hard work, we couldn’t have done this without you.
General practice webinar – Thursday 3 June
Our next general practice webinar will be taking place next Thursday 3 June, from 5pm. If you had registered for our last scheduled webinar on 20 May which did not go ahead due to a Microsoft Teams outage you do NOT need to register again. Otherwise, please do sign up to join us.
Nikki and Ed
Dr Nikki Kanani
GP and Medical Director for Primary Care,
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Ed Waller
Director for Primary Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement
General practice
General practice and the care of Armed Forces veterans and their families
This webinar now available to watch on YouTube from the Royal College of General Practitioners is the first in a new series of resources to help GPs to meet the healthcare needs of veterans and their families. It features lived experience from veterans, currently available services, and referral pathways.
Community pharmacy
Over a million more flu vaccinations administered by community pharmacists during 2020/21
Community pharmacy teams have administered over a million more flu vaccinations under the national Flu Vaccination Service during 2020/21 than the previous year – a 62% increase. The NHS Business Services Authority has published the Advanced Service Flu report which shows that community pharmacists administered 2.76 million vaccinations under the national Flu Vaccination Service in 2020/21, an increase from 1.72 million in the previous season.
Primary care
National PCN webinar: Building and housing your primary care network team - 23 June 2021, 5.30-7pm
Dr Ursula Montgomery, GP and Senior Clinical Advisor for Primary Care and Emily Henderson, Deputy Director Primary Care Workforce will host the next in our series of PCN webinars for clinical directors, general practice teams, CCGs and integrated care system leaders.
This event will focus on the multi-disciplinary team in a primary care network with colleagues joining us from around the country to share their experience of working together as a team and the benefits to local populations. We will also look at ways to accommodate your new workforce making full use of your estate. You will hear from Andy Bennett, National Clinical Director MSK conditions. There will be an opportunity to ask questions throughout the event and share your feedback on how nationally and regionally NHS England and NHS Improvement can support you and your PCN. Please register to attend here.
Patient and clinician guidance videos for teledermatology now available
New guidance videos have been published to support patients and primary care with teledermatology and are available on the NHS England and NHS Improvement Youtube channel.
- Patient-facing video: Taking photos of your skin and sending them securely to your GP
- Clinician-facing video: Healthcare Professionals Guide: Taking and uploading photos using secure smartphone apps
- Admin-facing video: Requesting Advice and Guidance in Dermatology: Integrated care systems and web-based e-RS systems
The patient videos are also being hosted as part of the National Health and Care video library, alongside other health-related videos.
New e-learning programme on identifying and responding to sexual assault and abuse
Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare and NHS England and NHS Improvement have developed an e-learning programme that provides information and advice for identifying and responding to sexual assault and abuse. This programme brings together numerous resources relating to the identification and response to rape, sexual assault and abuse, with learners able to access information, view videos and case studies and undertake self-assessments to support learning.
For more information about the e-learning programme, including details on how to access, please visit the Identifying and Responding to Sexual Assault and Abuse programme page.
Changes to Pneumovax®23 (Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine, PPV23) - supply route
There will be a change to the supply route of Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPV) from 1 June. In line with other national immunisation programmes, PHE will supply this vaccine for the routine immunisation programme and immunisation of those with underlying medical conditions from 1 June 2021, rather than providers locally procuring the vaccine.
From this date, the vaccine will be available to order from PHE’s ImmForm website. Please ensure you have an account to enable access. Details of ordering controls will be made available on ImmForm news item in due course. See the ImmForm help sheet for information on registering for an ImmForm account. More information is available in this published letter.
Update from the LeDeR programme (Learning from Lives and Deaths - People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People)
The new LeDeR website and notification site was launched on 25 May. This replaces the previous University of Bristol web pages and notification site, which has been decommissioned as we prepare to begin working with a new academic partner. The way in which a death is notified remains the same. The move follows the introduction of a new policy for LeDeR, also in easy read. From 1 June, there will also be a new process for reviewers to follow, new training and a new web platform for the LeDeR workforce.
We anticipate an announcement about the new academic partner in the coming weeks, once late stage negotiations have been finalised.
Dates for your diary
Thursday 27 May, 7pm – 8.30pm. GP CPCS – next steps in promoting the service. As part of our ongoing comms activity to support the implementation of the GP referral pathway to the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service, we are hosting a webinar with the RCGP.
Wednesday 2 June, 11am – 12.30pm. Anticipatory care - data sharing and digital tools for MDTs
Thursday 3 June, 1.30pm – 2.30pm. Boosting vaccine confidence within African and Caribbean communities
Thursday 3 June, 5pm – 6pm. General Practice webinar. Please note: if you had registered for our last scheduled webinar on 20 May which did not go ahead due to a Microsoft Teams outage you do NOT need to register again. Otherwise, please do sign up to join us.
Monday 7 June, 5pm – 6.30pm. Best MSKHealth collaborative update and FutureNHS launch
Tuesday 8 June, 7pm – 8.30pm. RCGP webinar: Post COVID-19 syndrome (“Long Covid”) Where are we now?
Wednesday 9 June, 11am – 12.30pm. Anticipatory care - personalised care within anticipatory Care
GP Appointment Data: GP practice briefing. These sessions hosted by NHS Digital will introduce recently issued national categorisation guidance and show practices how to carry out mapping to the new national standard categories. There are several dates available:
- Wednesday 9 June, 11.30am – 12.30pm
- Tuesday 15 June, 5pm – 6pm
Wednesday 23 June, 5.30pm – 7.00pm. PCN webinar: Building and housing your primary care network team
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