We are a group of locum and salaried GPs in Shropshire who meet for support and education. This website is for news, events, clinical articles, discussion forums and other information related to the group and working as a GP in Shropshire. If you are a Shropshire locum or salaried GP and want to become a […]
There are still a couple of FREE places left on the BLS session at Atcham War Memorial Village Hall. 9.30 – 11.30, Friday 12th September. Contact me if you want to reserve a place info@ssgpn.org.uk. This course has been funded by the ICB.
This is the link to join the meeting, any problems please email me on serena.jones5@nhs.net and I’ll add you in manually :). This cannot be recorded but they are offering quarterly webinars 🙂 https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NDNlOTM4NzgtYTEzOC00ZWIyLTllYzgtZDcwYTVjMWRkYzI0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229e863fe5-c0a8-4318-b15a-a9e260e3a20c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ed19b218-1bf7-42da-8cc6-9457273445cb%22%7d
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Come join us to say hello and help us plan for the year ahead! Emails have been sent out with meeting details – please let me know if not received. Thanks, Serena
We are very pleased to announce our new Chair, Dr Serena Salamat, who has kindly agreed to take over the role as I step down. Serena is an experienced locum and has been working in Shropshire for a number of years now. She is both knowledgeable and enthusiastic and I know the group will be […]
The PCN has decided that the funding that supported this role would be better spent elsewhere so unfortunately it is coming to and end, just as it was beginning. The planned resuscitation meeting that was going to happen in January now won’t (obviously it didn’t happen), nor will any further meetings or other support for […]
We hope you can come to our next general group meeting on Zoom. Topic: Shropshire Sessional GP Network meetingTime: Wednesday 15 November 2023 7:00 pmJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87331192859?pwd=M9dShwx9ZAXbPlVJ9DbgcF2vwDp0yB.1Meeting ID: 873 3119 2859Passcode: 179944 It will be an open meeting to discuss any topics or issues members may be having working as sessional GPs in Shropshire.
The meeting went ahead with small number of members. We had an open discussion about various topics including pensions, locum work in Shropshire, dealing with PCSE and then discussed the future of the group, which still remains uncertain. It may be that there is less need for the group as a lot of sessional GPs […]
Please see this survey from the ICS A new survey has been launched, specifically for primary care colleagues. Please take a few moments to complete the survey here.Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are very important issues in the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System (ICS). As part of our EDI work we’re very keen […]
The CCG has created a new post of GP Locum Champion and has accepted Dr Losa Shui to this position. Here is a brief summary by her of the position and her aims. We are keen to engage with her and explore better communication between the CCG and locums and encourage individual locums to make […]
The Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin CCG have launched a locum booking platform for GPs. The details are here: Please note we have had assurance from the CCG that this platform will be voluntary for practices to use: they remain free to book work directly with locums as has been the case for many years. It […]
Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin CCG are planning to introduce an online locum booking system (using an as yet unchosen system, which will NOT be the NASGP’s Locum Deck) across the county. They have prepared a questionnaire to ask locums about this and the link is www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PHDGBJ9 There are threads on this issue on our forum […]
Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin CCG have approached our group asking for feedback about plans for a centralised online locum booking system. There is funding and encouragement from NHS England and NHS Improvement for this. Here are two documents that give some background information. There are a number of commercial options suggested. We know that […]
There are less than three weeks to go til the end of the 2021 pension year. The current arrangements for employee contribution tiers – bands and rates – expires on 31st March and still there is no information on what these will be for the next pension year from 1st April onwards. The employers contribution […]
Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin CCGs are pleased to be able to offer opportunities for local GPs to access training to improve their mentoring skills and to provide funded mentoring to colleagues. For further details please see the attached advert document and application form. Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications is 14th March […]
The Scheme for General Medical Practice Indemnity (GMPI) has been revised, with a crucial change for Locum GPs. Details are in Appendix B, page 45 of the attached document below. In essence, since the start of NHS cover for clinical negligence up til now in order to benefit when working as a locum in Wales […]
From Phil Morgan, Primary Care Lead for Workforce, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin CCG. Hi colleagues – a quick follow-up to Steve Ellis’ email below. All practice staff/locums who volunteer to work on the Covid-19 vaccination programme will be paid for their time. As a consequence of this, the work will be covered by the […]
From Steve Ellis, Head of Primary Care, Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group Be part of history – Volunteers sought for Covid-19 vaccine consent and prescribing Dear Colleagues, As you will know a vaccine has been approved as effective and safe which is fantastic news in the fight against COVID-19. Here in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, we […]
From Carol Shillabeer, Prif Weithredwr/ Chief Executive, Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol Powys/Powys teaching Health Board COVID vaccination for health and care staff in Powys Book your appointment online at bit.ly/powyscovidvaccine Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to confirm that the health board is now in a position to launch the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme. This is the day […]
Message from Dr Chris Brown, GP mentoring lead for Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin: We want to let you know about this new easy access free confidential ‘GP-S’ service to support GPs (including locums and temporary staff) and practice managers. The new service is rapid in response aiming to match up trained mentors within 48 […]
You may have seen in the national media that there is a shortage of Roche reagents for certain pathology tests. Although the attached letter relates to blood tests, there are also shortages of reagents for some histology stains.
From Pulse and NHS England – this does actually seem to be good news. “Locum GPs are now part of the cohort eligible for free flu vaccination under the updated flu DES published today, which also retained the item-of-service fee for practices at £10.06 per dose. It comes as GPs have raised concerns that delivery of […]
We have now updated the registration process so that it can all be done on this website, as can checking and updating your membership. Please let us know if you have any problems with this.
Please bear with us while we do some work on this website. We’re in the process of moving the membership purchasing system here and will also be updating the log in and registering process. There should be minimal down time, but you may find some features off line from time to time.
Thanks to those who attended Attended Dr Deborah Shepherd, Dr Steph Chalmers, Dr Peter Taylor, Dr Helen Willows, Dr Fintan Last, Dr Ed Penman, Dr Nan Thornley, Dr Jane Gray, Dr Shehla Imam. Unable to but would like to be informed of outcome and welcome to attend future meetings: Dr Alison Grey Anyone willing to […]
Topic: Discusion of Shrewsbury PCN plans for locumsTime: 12 August 2020 6:30 pm for 7 pm start
The BMA has put together a useful page of resources: BMA – COVID-19
Please see link below to this letter: Simon Stevens ‘Next Steps on NHS Response to COVID19’
Shropshire CCG Practice Bulletin – 16 March 2020
Sorry for short notice on this but the Coronavirus situation is rapidly changing. Latest government advice is that all non-essential gatherings/meetings do not now happen and in line with this we have had to follow this advice. Obviously as soon as the situation improves and meetings can resume we will restart them. No meeting is […]