LMC Newsletter May 2025

ESSENTIAL READING

GP Contract 2025/26 Webinar

If you missed the GPC England series of webinars outlining the changes and funding to the 2025/26 GP contract, you can watch a recording of the webinar by clicking the link above. You can also view the slide deck here.

General Practice Appointment Data March 2025

Appointments data from NHS Digital shows there were over 529,000 general practice appointments in the Humber area in March 2025. Download a one page summary which can be displayed in practices here.

GPs

Rejecting Unnecessary Forms and Proformas
The BMA have produced guidance on rejecting unnecessary forms and proformas which create additional workload, delayed patient care, and unnecessary bureaucracy for GP practices - when a relevant, factual referral letter would suffice.

Principles for Shared Care Prescribing
Shared care prescribing refers to medication which is initiated by a specialist and ongoing prescribing and monitoring is shared with a GP practice, usually accompanied by guidance or a shared care agreement. The BMA have published a statement of shared care prescribing principles which can be viewed here.

'Hot Topics' GP Update Course
Saturday 7 June 2025, 09:30-17:00

Forest Pines Hotel, Ermine Street, Broughton, Brigg DN20 0AQ

A final reminder not to miss our great offer for the GP Update course, provided by the LMC at a subsidised rate. The course, run by NB Medical tutors, is open to GPs, GP Trainees, ANPs and AHPs working in the Humberside region. Includes:

• Fully referenced course book

• 12 months access to the online electronic version of the book

• CPD tracker

• NB Medical Web App giving you access to the content from your course day

Course fee: £55.00. Includes lunch and refreshments. Download the course brochure for full details. Please register online using booking code HUMB-0706 via the following link: www.nbmedical.com/bespoke/access

GPC England Regional Election

Congratulations to Dr Reid Baker who has been elected as GPC England regional representative for East Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire for a three year term from June 2025 to June 2028. The LMC look forward to working with Reid to ensure the voice of our GP constituents is heard at national level. Dr Zoe Norris, our CEO Medical Director, has also been elected to sit on GPC UK and GPCE for an additional year at the recent LMC UK conference in Glasgow.

PRACTICE MANAGERS

Update: Local Enhanced Services (LES) Training Offer
HNY ICB have shared the following information:

"As we move forward with the training provision, for those practices that have signed up to Local Enhanced Services and indicated a need for support during the sign-up process, The Training Hub will be reaching out to practices from their email address hnyicb.traininghub@nhs.net to signpost and to seek further detail. You can find more information on the Humber and North Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce Training Hub website Local Enhanced Services (LES) Training - Training Hub or the dedicated Humber and North Yorkshire Enhanced Services Review - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform.

Following the successful sign-up of GP practices across Humber and North Yorkshire for Local Enhanced Services (LES), we are committed to ensuring a robust and supportive training offer for all participating healthcare professionals. We are working closely with the primary care workforce training hub and colleagues across the system to facilitate the delivery of this training and will provide further updates as the provision increases.

Should you have any specific questions, please direct them to the following email addresses:

• For Ardens-related queries: hnyicb-nel.icbardensqueries@nhs.net.

• For shared care enquiries: hnyicb-ny.rxline@nhs.net and hnyicb.prescribingqueries@nhs.net

We recognise the urgency surrounding this training and are working hard to deliver it as quickly as possible. In the interim, if you have any questions about the LES training offer, please do not hesitate to contact the Primary Care workforce training hub directly hnyicb.traininghub@nhs.net. Thank you for your continued engagement and collaboration."

Important Changes to Buying Group Membership
The Buying Group has recently set up a new online portal for members to view their discounts, previous usage and request quotes. They have also launched ‘The Marketplace’ which is a one stop shop for office supplies, furniture, workwear, medical consumables and equipment.

Their website is also changing so your previous website logins will no longer work. This means everyone will need to complete this form to set up login details for the new portal: https://buying.plexusportal.co.uk/Register. Please check junk/spam folders for password set up emails. The Buying Group is managed by Plexus Support Services Ltd and their contact details are below if you have any questions:

Tel: 0115 979 6910

Email: info@plexussupport.co.uk

Website: https://www.plexussupport.co.uk

LMC Jobs Page
A reminder that practices in the Humber area can post their GP and practice manager vacancies free of charge on the Humberside LMCs Jobs page. Complete the online form to submit a vacancy.

FOR ALL STAFF

AI in General Practice
GPC England have published a brief guidance note on the use of AI in general practice. They urge caution due to risks around accuracy of AI tools, clarity on where data is held, and potential data governance risks for GPs. This has now been followed by a more detailed document Guidance on the use of AI-enabled ambient scribing products in health and care settings.

GP Connect and e-consult Contract Changes
Following the agreement of the 2025/26 GMS contract, a new requirement will come into place in October 2025 mandating practices to provide some external parties with the ability to submit information to the GP record and, in some limited cases, access information within the record. While much of the detail of this requirement is still to be determined, the BMA have produced an FAQs document on some of the more pressing questions.

Similarly, the scope of e-consult platforms is expected to expand as patients will have a wider range of ways to access and engage with GP services. A set of FAQs on that change can be found here.

Humber and North Yorkshire Community Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES)
The Community Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES) is an NHS service provided by accredited optometrists which provides urgent assessment, treatment, or referral for sudden onset eye problems such as flashes, floaters, vision loss or minor eye injuries. Conditions treated through the service include:

Red or painful eye or eyelids
Recently occurring flashes and floaters
Recent and sudden loss of vision
Foreign body in the eye

This service is available for all patients registered with a Humber and North Yorkshire locality GP. (Adults and Children). More details on the CUES service.

Local optical practices providing the service can be identified via the following link: Find a Practice - Search for your nearest participating optical practice.

Patients should self-refer into the service by contacting the optical practice of their choice to make an appointment.

Practice Nurse Forum
Wednesday 25 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Online via MS Teams

The forum, hosted by the LMC, is for all practice nurses in the Humber region. Michelle Turner, Diabetic Specialist Nurse and General Practice Nurse, will be introducing the Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC) programme. Learn more about the programme including: leading by example; tackling inequalities; and addressing disease prevention. Join the forum via MS Teams.

Events
Details of events from other providers, including our colleagues at GPMplus who deliver a range of courses to primary care colleagues and teams, can be found on our External Events and Training page.

GPC Update
The GPC publish fortnightly updates for LMCs covering contractual issues, policy, news updates and more. The most recent update (16 May) can be downloaded here. Previous updates can be found here.

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