Shared Care of Medicines Forerunner Scheme

Shared care of medicines (SCOM) is a nationally recognised pathway to enable seamless prescribing and monitoring of higher risk medicines and allowing patients to receive care closer to home in an integrated and convenient manner. Greater Manchester GP Incentive...

Quality and Outcomes Framework guidance for 2025/26

Clinical and public health indicatorsi. Clinical and public health indicators are organised by disease or interventioncategories. These indicators have been selected as they represent care where:• The responsibility for ongoing management rests principally with the...

Access to health records

Meeting the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018 The UK GDPR should be read alongside the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). Detailed guidanceand resources on the legislation can be found on the Information...

NON Contracted Work in general practice

GP Workload: Core & non-core work The responsibility of secondary care services and should not be asked of general practice: Being asked to re-refer for endoscopy, echocardiogram etc Fit notes following operations/hospital stays Phlebotomy requested by secondary...

Locum Sessional & Salaried GPs Contracts and Guidance

Agency Workers Regulations and Locum GPs June 2012 This guidance will be useful for locums who are employed by locum agencies, as well as the practices who hire them.Practices should be aware that the Regulations also apply to any other staff that they hire through...