Sandwell Local Medical Council – Public Meeting Minutes

Monday 12th September 2016, 7.30-9.30pm

The Medical Education Centre, Sandwell Hospital

PRESENT:

Dr Raymond Sullivan (RS) / Chair
Dr B Choudhary (BC) / Vice Chair
Dr B Andreou (BA) / Medical Secretary
Dr A Sakthivel (ASa) / LMC Member
Dr U Ahmed (UA) / GPC Regional Representative

APOLOGIES:

Dr A Saini (AS) / Treasurer
Dr N Haque (NH) / LMC Member
Mrs Hayley Haworth / Lay Secretary
Item / Discussion / Action
1. / Asthma in line with the ccg pds 2016 and diabetes – napp pharmacceuticals
SukhiAthwal delivered a presentation.
2. /
  • INTRODUCTIONS /ANNOUNCEMENTS/ APOLOGIES
Apologies were acknowledged as above.
There were no announcements.
3. /
  • MINUTES OF THE previous MEETING (Public section)
It was agreed that the minutes of the previous meeting were an accurate record of the meeting with no amendments required.
4. /
  • communicating with practices, survey results
  • A survey was sent out by email to all email addresses held by the LMC. There were 6 responses in total which provided the following information.
  • The majority of responders would like to receive copies of LMC meeting minutes
  • Half of the responders would like to be able to view the minutes on the LMC website, and half of the responders would like a copy to be sent to one nominated person in each practice
  • All of the responders would find LMC run Open Meetings helpful
  • Half of the responders would like to see afternoon LMC run open meetings, with the other half preferring evening meetings
As a follow on from the RCGP event, the next LMC Open Meeting will take place in November. It was suggested that a representative from Modality could be invited to speak at the Open Meeting providing that they are not on the agenda at the RCGP event. RS suggested conducting a small survey to ask members what topics they may find of interest to ascertain whether a talk from Modality would be of interest.
5. / ccg matters
General Issues
It was noted that SWBCCG have again being shortlisted for the HSJ CCG of the year award.
Discussions took place about the increased workload that GPs are facing. RS suggested that GPs should submit invoices for additional work, and a counter suggestion was made to compile a list of what the GP will do along with prices against each item. It was noted that there is no claims process and GPs have to ‘do it all’ for one flat fee.
RS noted that this is un-resourced work and if they keep sending work to you after the first invoice then it means that they want you to do it at that price otherwise they do not have to send the work.
BA is going to raise with Dr Sing is the fact that they will not accept scans done by Health Harmonie, but at the same time there is no contract with the Trust to send patients to have scans at the Trust.
STP Update
BA attended the RCGP meeting on this area and reported on the main points which included ensuring that LMC’s are involved in the early stages and not involved once plans have been finalised.
Child Immunisations
RS and BA met with Health Intelligence who have modified their agreement and demonstrated that they have dealt with information governance issues. RS reported that the agreement now comes up to scratch. It was noted that NHSE pay for the legal advice, and the legal advice was that with a tweak or two the service legal agreement was acceptable. In terms of data protection, once theinformation comes out of the GP practice, it belongs to Health Intelligence and is their responsibility. Health Intelligence have provided assurance that patients that have requested that their information not be shared, and is therefore coded as such, will not be utilised. Instructions have therefore been given to practices to go ahead and send the requested information.
PCCC – Public Agenda
RS was not present at this meeting however BA was able to report that The following items were discussed, PSE Capita, relocation process and the risk register.
BA was present at the meeting and reported that the records are thought to be being delivered more promptly with larger vans being used for transportation. It was noted that Capita have let two very senior members of staff go and it is therefore likely that changes will take place. With regards to relocation, there is another consultation taking place as a practice has requested to move premises to the ASRA building. It was also noted that a well attended consultation meeting had taken place regarding the proposed development in Great Barr. BA advised thatthe primary care budget has a forecast surplus of approximately £166k. If this is realised it will be transferred to the CCG to reduce the overspend.
6. / gpc / bma matters
Medical Secretary Annual Conference
It was suggested that it may be useful for the Lay Secretary to accompany BA to next year’s meeting.
7. /
  • ELECTION OF MEMBERS
RS was tasked with looking over previous meetings. Meeting minutes have been located which show that Nitti Pall was in the Chair in 2012. This identifies that an election was due last year.
Member nominations should include the support of a seconder.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
Monday 10th October 2016