Wessex LMCs Podcasts

Death Certification Reforms and Statutory Medical Examiner System

Our Joint CEOs Dr Andy Purbrick and Dr Laura Edwards together discuss the impending reforms to Death Regulations that come into place next week. They will run through the need to knows and our website guidance and decision-making flowchart to help you navigate the process and the changes. See all the guidance and the flow chart here: Death Certification - Wessex LMCs

Visa Sponsorship in General Practice

Does your practice have a visa sponsorship licence already?  
Do you know what it is or why you might want one?  
This podcast will persuade you to push this up your practice list of priorities as something to have in place! Listen now to find out why. Our Joint CEO and GP Dr Laura Edwards talks with a panel around visa sponsorship and how it impacts international graduates particularly around the time of qualification and what actions practices may want to take to help with their recruitment.
Helpful Resources:
UK Visa Sponsorship Licences (formerly known as Tier 2) - Wessex LMCs
Skilled Workers/Visa Sponsorship Licences - bswtraininghub.nhs.uk

Different ways of working – a General Practice example

In this episode Dr Edd Rendell speaks with Business Manager Jo Farnworth and GP Partner Dr John Robertson from Prince of Wales Surgery, Dorchester. They have found a new way of working which includes creating additional administration time and offering more prebookable appointments. This has led to a happier practice for staff and patients and them no longer requiring a duty doctor. We talk through how this happened and what changes they have seen over the past 11 months. They share tips for practices who wish to explore a similar model. 

GPAS: Stating the Case for General Practice - 2 years on

In this podcast we revisit the General Practice Alert State (GPAS) tool 2 years after its initial launch.
This powerful tool helps build a picture across the Wessex area. The data practices provide empowers the LMC to argue the case for general practice and illustrate the pressures practice teams are under.
Find out more here: https://www.wessexlmcs.com/guidance/gpas-general-practice-alert-state/

An insight into GPDF

This Wessex LMCs podcast is about an organisation called the GPDF – or General Practitioners Defence Fund. In this podcast Dr Will Howard (Medical Director of Wessex LMCs) is joined by Dr Chris Castle, a GP Partner in Southeast Hants, Chair of Wessex LMCs Board and a Board member of GPDF. Chris and Will discuss what GPDF is, what it does and how it is funded, as well as how you might be able to access it if you need it. GPDF also fund the national conferences which is critical in giving LMCs a voice in directing GPC action and negotiation. For more information take a look at the GPDF website: https://www.gpdf.org.uk/

Discussion on Collective Action

In this podcast Dr Laura Edwards and Dr Edd Rendell explore what the BMA have shared around proposed collective action and touch on the recent GP Connect issue.

Our Values

Edd Rendell, talks to Dr Simon Wright, GP and Chair of the Dorset LMC, and Lisa Harding, about ‘Our Values’.  They discuss what the Values mean, why they are so important and how they apply to the work of the LMC. See more on our website here.

Reflecting on the Challenges Facing Dispensing Practices

In this podcast Ed Kennedy who is a Managing Partner at the Wickham Surgery in Hampshire, reflects on his own personal experience of the challenges dispensing practices are currently facing and why these are occurring.  Ed also introduces his role with the Institute of General Practice Management (IGPM) and the support that is available for Dispensing Managers through this.
With our Conference for PMs and GPs fasting approaching on the 25th June, we thought it would be useful to provider a taster for one of our breakout sessions for dispensing practices, so please do register for the conference and come along to hear Ed & Dr Ben Inglis talk about the challenges and hear some ideas on how to resolve these.
Conference Booking Link: https://www.wessexlmcs.com/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=478

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) in Primary Care

Pertussis – the latest infectious disease to make the headlines, but also to cause real risk to the most vulnerable patients in our population. Listen to Dr Sanjay Patel, Consultant in Infections disease at Southampton Hospital talk Dr Will Howard, a Wessex LMCs Medical Director, about pertussis, what’s going on, how to recognise and treat it, and how we might minimise its future impact through prevention by immunisation.

The General Practice Nurse Role

In this podcast Zoe Tobin, Nurse Advisor at Wessex LMCs is joined by Angie Hack, Assistant Director of Nursing Programmes at the Queen's Nursing Institute, and Chair of the Association of Academic General Practice Nurse Educators. They discuss the ever-developing role of the General Practice Nurse in primary care. This podcast is aimed at GPNs, anyone interested in becoming a GPN and other members of the practice team who would like a better understanding of the role, such as Practice Managers,
This podcast covers:
The skills and qualifications required to undertake the role
The different roles in general practice nursing
Education pathways for nurses seeking a career in General practice nursing
Sources of support for trainee GPNs
Resources and contacts to aid practice nurse training and development
Resources-
General Practice Nursing Induction Template
Standards of Education and Practice for Nurses New to General Practice Nursing
https://qni.org.uk/
https://qni.org.uk/resources/?aow=general-practice
https://gpnen.org.uk/
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/training-hubs - find your local training hub.