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GP Bulletin

For Action

• Save the Date

Lambeth CCGs next All Practice Event is due to take place on the afternoon of 20th Jan 2015 at the Kia Oval.

Full details will be sent in the next few weeks, but in the meantime, please hold the date in your diaries. We look forward to seeing you there

For Information

• Wellbeing Service is available for all patients registered with any GP practices in London (Please see attached flyers 1a-c)

Hello and welcome to the CoolTan Arts Wellbeing Service!

We offer many activities: creative workshops, advocacy training, volunteering opportunities, organised healthy walks and much more. Registerwith usfor a 45 minute meeting to complete an individually tailored ‘Wellbeing Plan’ with a Wellbeing Advisor. We will explore your interests, identify goals and/or areas of your life that you might like support with.

Attached are our latest updated forms & publicity that we are using to promote our Wellbeing service amongst the practices and to outside agencies.

They include:

-Poster for Wellbeing Service for publicising in waiting area, notice board Welcome letter for patients Registration Form for patients

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• New Dates from Ready SteadyGo! (Please see attached flyer 2)

New dates from January 2015 are now available, please see attached flyer

• Updates from Infection Control(Please see attached flyers3a-d)

Please find attached the latest updates and posters from Infection Control

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• Improving Hospital Discharge Summaries

Introduction

King’s is making efforts to improve the patient experience of discharge from hospital and to improve the quality of the GP discharge summary

Main story

We have undertaken an audit of the quality of discharge summaries across a number of surgical and medical specialties. The audit was led by GPs across Lambeth, Southwark and Bromley with input from hospital clinicians.

Some of the quality themes highlighted were:

• Lengthy summaries that were difficult to follow
• Lack of clarity about follow-up arrangements
• Change in medications and the rationale
• Requests for GPs to chase diagnostic results (hospital responsibility)
• Frequent use of acronyms/ abbreviations
• Unclear or absent discharge plans for packages of care to be provided by community and social care providers
• Lack of information given to patients and carers about diagnosis, treatment and on-going care
• Lack of hospital baseline results which need on-going monitoring in primary care e.g. BP, HbA1c, Hb

The findings are being shared with all hospital consultants and with the multidisciplinary teams that organise discharge arrangements so that we can plan to improve the quality to make them more concise and informative. We hope you will see an improvement over the coming weeks and months.

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• Communication from King’s Hospital

A new CQUIN initiative has started at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to document and communicate to GPs, patients’ medication reviews undertaken during their admission. This project is being led by Professor Steve Jackson, Consultant Clinical Gerontology.

Patients (from Lambeth, Southwark and Bromley) discharged from a geriatric medicine ward (Byron, Donne, Marjorie Warren and Mary Ray wards at Denmark Hill; S1 and S2 wards at the PRUH) will be discharged with a Clinical Medication Review letter (CMR), which will give GPs detailed information on medicines stopped, started, changed and any follow up recommendations. It will be sent with the discharge summary and written by the pharmacist and doctor responsible for the care of the patient. A copy will also be given to the patient on discharge to give to their community pharmacist.

When you receive the CMR, please consider the recommendations and amend the medication records as appropriate. We hope this initiative will ensure that information about medicines is effectively transferred and will improve the experience and continuity of care for our patients. Please let us know if you have any concerns over our recommendations.

Jill Solly, Head of Primary Care/Secondary care Interface Strategy Team

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Tel: 0203 299 7516

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• Update from Lambeth Council

As part of the on-going review and transformation of Children’s Services in Lambeth, I want to let you know that I have assumed responsibility, on behalf of the Council, the role of Director of Children’s Services (DCS).

The following Directors will support me in discharging my duties as DCS.

Cathy Twist - Education

Cath Knowles - Children’s Safeguarding and Early Help

Maria Millwood - Integrated Commissioning for Children and Families

Sue Foster OBE

Strategic Director for Delivery

London Borough of Lambeth

Phone: 020 7926 3426

Email :

• Invitation

Invitation to grand opening of West Norwood Health and Leisure Centre

Friday 5 December 2014

3pm – 6.30pm

Venue: West Norwood Health and Leisure Centre, 25 Devane Way, London SE27 0DF

On behalf of NHS Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group, we write to invite you to the grand opening of West Norwood Health and Leisure Centre in collaboration with Lambeth Council

The event will include:

• Key Note Speech from Dame Tessa Jowell MP
• Tours of the centre
• Networking with colleagues over refreshments and light entertainment

The centre represents a ground-breaking approach to integrating health services with physical activity and Council services and has been nominated in this year’s Health Service Journal Awards in the Improving Partnerships between Health and Local Government category.

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• Latest Updates

All the latest updates on pandemic flu, ebola and other EPRR updates can be found via the practice portal.

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• Management of Headaches

An eveningevent for GPs organised by Guy’s and St Thomas’ and the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Giorgio Lambru - Consultant Neurologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ & Dr Adnan Al-Kaisy Clinical Lead in Pain Management Guy’s and St Thomas’

Will present on Primary headache diagnosis and differential diagnosis

• Red flags for secondary headaches
• When to scan and when not to scan a patient with headaches
• Management of primary headaches
• The use of opioids / Amitriptyline /novel treatments for pain management
• Headache pathways

Date: Monday 8 December

Time: Buffet from 7.00pm / lecture starts at 7.40pm

Venue: South Wing Lecture Theatre, St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH

Bookings must be made online

• Free Cardiology Seminar for GP’s at Guy’s Hospital

Thecardiovascular service at Guy’s andSt Thomas'would like to invite all GPs to a free evening workshop onThursday 15 January2015. Programme of the event includes:

• Challenging heart failure cases in primary care (5 cases with daily challenges)
• An approach to identifying inherited cardiac conditions in primary care
• What is new in heart failure
• Emerging concepts in diastolic heart failure management.

Date:Thursday 15 January2015, 7- 9pm
Venue : Robens Suite, Floor 29 Tower Wing, Guys Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT
There will be clinical case discussions and attendance certificates provided on the day. This evening event carriestwo CPD points.
Click here to book a place

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• SEXUAL HEALTH IN PRACTICE (SHIP)

This interactive, practical, peer-led training in sexual health has been tailored for GPs and Practice Nurses in the primary care setting. It will enable LSL clinicians to update knowledge and develop further skills in assessing sexual health risk, by offering real life approaches to HIV and STI testing, diagnosis and management. Join the 240 LSL clinicians who have benefited so far from SHIP in changing their practice to tackle our significant local HIV & STI rates

Delegates must attend all session to complete the training they are as follows:

Practice Nurse Sessions: PN1

Date: 5th February 2015, 12.30 pm - 4.30 pm

Practice Nurse Sessions: PN2

Date: 12th February2015, 12.30 pm - 4.30 pm

Venue: Dulwich Community Hospital, Chapel Room East, Dulwich Grove, Dulwich, SE22 8PT

GP session: Key Issues in Sexual Health

Date: 26th February 2015, 12.30 pm - 5.00 pm

Venue: St John’s Medical Centre, Loampit Hill, Lewisham, SE13 7SX

Final Session for GPs & PNs: General Practice & HIV

Date: 5th March 2015, 12.30pm - 5.00pm

Venue: Dulwich Community Hospital, Chapel Room, East Dulwich Grove, Dulwich, London, SE22 8PT

Download Application: Contact: Tel: 020 3299 4206

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• ALL PRACTICE MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING DATES!!

9th December 2014 – India Suite, Oval. 12.00 – 3.00.

Interactive workshop to discuss primary care issues with mental health care providers – agenda attached. Payment available under the CIS

27th January 2015 – 12.30 – 4.00. Part of the programme of PLT events. Agenda and venue details coming shortly

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3 December 2014