Primary care bulletin - 20 March 2024
Bulletin:
Cervical screening management system update; Pharmacy opening hours over Easter; NW London HIV Champions; medical device database and more

Welcome to this week's primary care bulletin


Key points this week include:
  • Cervical screening management system (CSMS) update
  • Pharmacy opening hours over Easter
  • NW London HIV GP Champions
  • Latest on adult community-based specialist palliative care review
  • Medical device database
  • New NW London musculoskeletal (MSK) service
  • HSJ awards 2024
  • Diabetes Nursing Awards
  • Ramadan - Keeping Well NW London
  • Training, webinars and more

Cervical screening management system (CSMS) update


NHS North West London & NHS England continue to work together in preparation for the launch of CSMS. Once CSMS goes live, Open Exeter will no longer be accessible for NHS cervical screening programme purposes.

We can confirm that North West London achieved 100% uptake in practice smart card preparations – thank you all for your engagement in achieving this. 

All staff who deliver NHS cervical screening programme services and need to use the system, now need to take two key actions:  

1. Carry out a check to confirm if you can access CSMS
The access check will not enable you to use CSMS yet, it is to check you have the right permissions to access it when it does go live. You can check your access here and this guidance will support you. 
  • If after following the above guidance you identify your smartcard has not been correctly configured for access, please contact NWL Registration Authority via: nhsnwl.registration.authority@nhs.net
2. Complete CSMS training – the first of two modules is now live on the Learning Hub (you can use your e-Learning for Health login to access). Training must be completed before using the new CSMS. For more information please visit the website. 

Official launch date of CSMS is still TBC – however, as soon as this is released by NHS England we will ensure you are made aware locally. You can sign up for updates directly from the national team via this link.

Alternatively, should you have any questions or require further assistance, please contact the CSMS Implementation Team at screening.implementation@nhs.net 

Pharmacy opening hours over Easter


The table attached provides the opening hours for pharmacies in North West London which have been asked to open over the Easter Holidays.

Please note that Saturday 30 April 2024 is not a bank holiday; however there will be some pharmacies who normally open who will be closed on this day. 

Please share with patients. 

NW London HIV GP Champions


Please find attached a newsletter from your NW London HIV GP Champions. 

We hope you will be able to join us for the education event on Thursday 18 April, 12:45-13:45 to learn about the programme and meet us. 

You can join by clicking on the pink box in the newsletter.

Or 

Click here for Teams link 

Latest on adult community-based specialist palliative care review


Over the last few months we have been working to get to a place where we can now publish the revised NW London model of care for community-based specialist palliative care for adults (18+). At the same time, we have also looked at how we can best deliver the new model of care and this has led us to a potential shortlist of five implementation options.

We have published an update that details all the work that has been carried out and the current position. View the latest update.

New NW London musculoskeletal (MSK) service


NW London ICB are pleased to announce Healthshare as our new community musculoskeletal (MSK) service provider across Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, Brent, Harrow.  

They will also be providing community pain services in Hillingdon.

HSJ Awards 2024 


Entries for the awards close on Friday 31 May 2024.

The HSJ Awards are both a celebration of success stories and also a platform to shape the future of the NHS through adhere to their 43-year-old values of sharing best practice, improving patient outcomes, and innovating drivers of better service, but will most importantly provide a well-deserved thanks to the sector.

There are 26 award categories in 2024 including:

Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year
Primary and Community Care Provider of the Year 
Data-Driven Transformation Award
 
For more information about the HSJ 2024 awards visit: Home | HSJ Awards

Diabetes Nursing Awards


Entries for the awards close on Friday 29 March 2024.

Diabetes Nursing Awards is about celebrating our nursing heroes who are raising the standards of diabetes care. The awards will culminate with a dinner and awards ceremony at Thistle Marble Arch London from 8pm to 11pm on Friday 7 June 2024 which will be hosted by Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE.

Participants may enter up to two categories.
Check out the eight awards categories.
The deadline for entries is midnight on Friday, 29 March 2024. 
Click here for entry forms.

For more information about the Diabetes Nursing Awards, visit: www.diabetesnursingawards.co.uk 

Ramadan – Keeping Well NW London


Ramadan Kareem to our colleagues who are observing the holy month of fasting this year!

Many of our colleagues who are Muslim and observe fasting during Ramadan, will participate in a daily period of fasting, starting at sunrise and finishing at sunset over the month.  This means abstaining from food and drink (including water). 

During this period many people may make many changes to their daily habits and routines, often people describe this as having a positive effect on their wellbeing. The Mental Health Foundation have a page on tips to look after your mental health during Ramadan.

The Keeping Well Support during Ramadan website page also has more information and resources with useful guidance to support both staff and managers during Ramadan.

We are here to support you. Get in touch with us by:    

Telephone: 0300 123 1705 
Email: keepingwell.nwl@nhs.net    
Complete a self-referral form

Education and training

Multiple dates available for polypharmacy action learning set workshops


Cohort fifteen - 17 April, 1 and 15 May 2024
Cohort sixteen - 8 and 22 May, 5 June 2024
Cohort seventeen - 12 and 26 June, 10 July
Cohort eighteen - 19 June, 3 and 17 July

The National Polypharmacy Programme invites you to join the action learning set (ALS) to help build GP and prescribing health care professionals’ confidence in, and understanding of, the complex issue surrounding and stopping inappropriate medicines safely. Delegates need to attend all three sessions. The ALS with also help PCNs deliver the medicines optimisation elements of the new Directed Enhanced Services contract and contributes to the QoF.

To learn more about the Polypharmacy ALS please click here, to register for either: 

Cohort 15 please click here
Cohort 16 please click here
Cohort 17 please click here
Cohort 18 please click here

Feel free to circulate this invite to other colleagues who may be interested. 

For further information and/or to get involved with the ICHP Polypharmacy Programme please contact - catherine.caldwell@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com

Free UKHSA immunisation update webinar dates


FAO: Practice Nurses

We are pleased to inform you that new dates have been confirmed for the UKHSA Primary Care Immunisation Update Webinar series – a FREE training resource for immunisers working in primary care in London.

This project has been running since September 2018 and the webinars have been very well evaluated as a training tool.

Please see the attached flyer for more information and how to register.

Updated Mental Capacity Act elearning now available  

The Mental Capacity Act elearning programme has been updated for all health and care staff who work with people lacking mental capacity.

The resource has been revised and updated in line with recent case law and user feedback; and includes essential revisions to materials about the Liberty Protection Safeguards.

There are 12 sessions in the programme which cover a range of topics including best interests, restraint, adult safeguarding and deprivation of liberty.  It is aimed at all health and care professionals who work with people aged 16 and over, who might lack mental capacity to make essential decisions at the time these decisions need making. 

Since it was developed in 2019 the programme has been launched 870,000 times and has more than 95,000 active users across the health and social care sectors.

For more information and to access the newly updated elearning, please visit the Mental Capacity Act programme page.