23 November 2023
Practices have reported that they are seeing an increase in requests for them to prescribe sedation for patients due to have radiological investigations such as MRI scans. Sedated patients should…
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22 November 2023
Practices contacted us to advise they had been told that they could not refer patients directly to fracture clinic. While most patients who need fracture clinic are referred directly after…
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5 November 2023
GPC England (GPCE) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and have issued a joint statement to alert their respective members to the details of the recently announced 6% pay…
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26 September 2023
Background We recently issued some information on Inclisiran but wished to further update this as several practices have contacted us to inform us that they have felt under pressure by…
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14 August 2023
Introduction The introduction of WebV into primary care has caused some legitimate concerns among users, not least because it has come at a time when primary care is under pressure,…
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9 August 2023
The website will help Practices and patients to access the right hospital team. Note: the teams do not belong to a particular hospital site. Phone lines are open from Monday…
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3 August 2023
NICE funds and manages the provision of the British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for Children (BNFC) to the NHS and other eligible groups in England on behalf…
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27 July 2023
Self-service password reset is now available for your NHSmail account. How does this impact me? This means you can reset your password at any time without contacting local IT support…
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27 July 2023
Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire, the Local Pharmaceutical Committee, thought that it might be useful to share an extract from a recent briefing on medicines supply issues produced by the national pharmacy…
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12 July 2023
The NHS is currently facing supply issues with glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), a range of drugs used for managing blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes.…
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7 July 2023
From 26 June patients who test positive for covid and who are eligible for covid treatment (high risk patients) will no longer be contacted by NHSE automatically. Digitally identifiable, eligible…
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21 June 2023
The letter linked here outlines the upcoming change to the HPV vaccine programme from 1 September 2023. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have advised that one dose…
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