TRAINING Handling Difficult Situations Training   Following a successful pilot in 2021/22, NHS England are pleased to announce that places are now available on their national training programme that aims to offer our patient facing NHS people the skills and techniques to handle difficult situations with compassion. This training is open to those working Read more…

NHS Pensions newsletter: Information for practice managers and teams  The NHS Business Services Authority have a monthly newsletter to discuss all things relating to NHS pensions. July’s edition is now out, with a focus on Pensions Online (POL) downtime, new assets for employers to promote the NHS Pensions member events, the Administration Foundation Course and Read more…

Practices can access free digital advice and tailored support for their website and social media pages as part of the 2022/23 offer from Redmoor Health. Redmoor Health can help develop your practice’s online presence, enabling patients to better access primary care services. The support available includes: one-to-one advice with general queries a review and feedback Read more…

Primary care wellbeing survey now open to responses – North Central London GP Website (northcentrallondonccg.nhs.uk) The latest NHS wellbeing survey, which takes ten minutes to complete, is now open for all staff working across primary care. Results from the previous survey in January show that wellbeing and resilience of the workforce remains a challenge. As Read more…

Careers Fair 2022 Careers fair signups are going really well.  On Friday (25 Feb) we had 311 students signed up.   45 from Barnet, 58 from Enfield, 8 from Islington, 7 from Camden, 9 from Haringey and 194 who haven’t specified where they are from. There is a need for GP’s to come and speak with Read more…

Our final session of our bespoke Wellbing Workshop 1 – You Matter is this Friday at 1000. Register your interest today for the link to attend a session with speakers on Nutrition, Yoga, Digital Decoupling and mental wellbeing. End your week with some time for you.  Listen to speakers on Digital decoupling, desk yoga, nutrition, Read more…

Dear All Hope you have had a good week – at least the sun has been shining and treating us to some lovely crisp winter morning  and evening skies. Here is this week’s Edition Vaccination as a Condition of deployment (VCOD) New regulations are due to come into effect on 1 April 2022 requiring all Read more…

Pan London Discrimination and Racism Survey in Primary Care For the first time ever, we’re looking into the extent of discrimination and racism in London’s primary care workforce. Through recent local surveys, it is clear we face many challenging issues within Primary Care around equality, diversity and inclusion. This work is part of The Regional Read more…

Dear All Hope you are all well.  The ‘flu and COVID-19 Booster vaccination hubs have picked up a pace and I know how hard you all are working.  Hope  you are making time to look after yourselves as well. You Screen self-sampling study – Ending on 31 December The YouScreen North Central London Cancer Alliance study, which Read more…