Please find below information from the GPC for your attention. We have co-badged a template letter with the Royal College of GPs, that practices can use to write to private providers offering non-approved screening tests. Numerous private companies are offering…
The aim of the GMC’s income discount scheme is to assist doctors whose overall financial circumstances makes it more difficult for them to afford the full annual fee. However some doctors may miss out on the discount if their period…
The BMA has updated its guidance for GPs about the annual allowance, following extensive lobbying, resulting in two important changes that affect the 19/20 and subsequent tax years. As an emergency measure for 19/20, NHS England and the Welsh Government…
The BMA has published guidance for doctors on life insurance and income protection during the pandemic, following a number of doctors having raised concerns about the impact of COVID-19 on their application and how insurers are taking into account the…
Further to information furnished on Monday 24th February 2020 and whilst any further national position on this is awaited I would remind practices that the types of consultations which it makes available for online booking are entirely a matter for…
BMA has updated all its employment status (IR35) guidance into one easy-to-read document so that locum GPs have all the information they need to be confident in determining their employment status. Read more in a blog by Matt Mayer, deputy…
The containment of COVID-19 remains of major concern and we are monitoring the situation and will continue to disseminate information as it becomes available. Our webpage is regularly updated with guidance and links to information from Public Health England, Health…
The deadline to submit the NHS Pension Scheme end of year Type 1 medical practitioner (GP Provider) certificate or the Type 2 medical practitioner (salaried GP) self-assessment form for year 2018/19 is Saturday 29th February 2020. These need to be…
Reports are being received from around the country that NHS 111 is inappropriately sending patients to general practice for suspected coronavirus assessment/testing. If you experience any instances of this please could you provide chapter and verse evidence to the LMC…
The final pay control regulations were introduced from 1 April 2014 to protect the pension scheme from the costs that arise where an employer awards an exceptionally high pay rise to a member of the 1995 section of the NHS…