YORLMC podcast (YORLMC)

Find out more about how the GPAS (General Practice Alert State) data works and how valuable the data is, with YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor and Executive Officer Jack Burgess.

Listen to the first of our special Podcast Soundbites - a quick 2 minute update on a key topic.

In this episode, hear from YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor about how to keep up with the latest news on the GP contract by joining the YORLMC WhatsApp group. All GPs across the YORLMC area are invited to join - please email info@yorlmcltd.co.uk for the link.

Joanne Rowe and Chris Brennan are both Practice/Business Managers as well as mentors with GPMplus. In this podcast, find out from Joanne and Chris:

• How can GPMplus mentoring help managers that are new to general practice management?

• How can GPMplus mentoring help established/experienced Practice Managers?

• How can Managers find the time for mentoring?

Visit https://gpmplus.co.uk/ for more information and to access mentoring. 

Hear from Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer about ways to support each other to make an environmental difference in healthcare.

Hear from GPMplus mentoring lead Dr Jonathan Dixon and mentor Laura Angus about the mentoring service available for pharmacists from GPMplus.

For more information, or to access mentoring, please visit the ⁠GPMplus website⁠. The service for optometrists is currently available in Humber & North Yorkshire and will be launched shortly in West Yorkshire.

Hear from GPMplus Mentoring Lead Dr Jonathan Dixon and mentor Garrey Haase about the service available from GPMplus for optometrists and how mentoring can help you at all stages of your career, for example:

• Early career – feeling overwhelmed or wanting advice with career development?
• Mid career – feeling isolated or struggling with work-life balance?
• Late career – need support with succession and retirement planning?

For more information, or to access mentoring, please visit the GPMplus website. The service for optometrists is currently available in Humber & North Yorkshire and will be launched shortly in West Yorkshire.

Practice Manager Catherine Smith discuss her practice's experience of the Healthy Practice programme. In discussion with GPMplus Healthy Practice Clinical Lead, Dr John Bibby, Catherine talks about

• why her practice took part in the programme pilot
• how the programme works
• the benefits that the practice and staff took from the experience

Find out more about the Healthy Practice programme, including how to apply to take part, on the GPMplus website.

Find out more about planetary health and how it affects healthcare in the second environmental special podcast with Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer.

For more information about doughnut economics by Kate Raworth, mentioned in this episode, please see this website.

YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor gives an update on the GP contract. 

An update from YORLMC Medical Secretary and GPC Member Dr Brian McGregor and YORLMC Locality Officer and GPC Member Dr Cath Chapman.

Find out more about GPMplus mentoring in this episode with GPMplus Mentoring Lead Dr Jonathan Dixon and GPMplus Wellbeing Lead Dr Danielle Hann. You can apply for mentoring on the GPMplus website

NHS practices in the YORLMC area can advertise jobs free of charge on the YORLMC jobs board. GPs looking for work in the YORLMC area can also advertise on the jobs board free of charge.

The jobs board is available here. To place an advert, please email info@yorlmcltd.co.uk

The BMA is running a Local Action Tracker Survey, to build a picture of local participation with collective action. The survey is sent on a monthly basis and practice managers will receive a link each month from YORLMC.

Thanks very much to all practices who are already completing the survey each month. If you are not already doing so, please do consider filling in the survey the next time you receive a link.

If you have any queries, please contact YORLMC on info@yorlmcltd.co.uk

Find out more about the GPMplus Tiny Habits course with course facilitator Dr Katherine Hickman and GPMplus Healthy Practice Lead Dr John Bibby.

In the Tiny Habits course, you’ll discover that BJ Fogg’s scientifically established system of behaviour change will help you build extraordinarily strong habits and achieve previously unattainable results. The course is for anybody wanting to build strong positive habits quickly and effectively in all areas of their lives.

The course is fully funded however we do request a £10 donation per delegate to the Cameron Fund. 

You can find out more and book your place on the Tiny Habits course here.

Hear more about Green Social Prescribing in this discussion between

• Dr Margaret Jackson, Co-Chair of Greener Practice North Yorkshire

• Anthony Hurd, Programme Manager for the Humber and North Yorkshire Green Social Prescribing Programme

• Dr Hannah Armitt, Clinical Research Psychologist at Humber NHS Teaching Foundation Trust and Clinical Lead for HNY Green Social Prescribing Programme

Find out more about some of the project mentioned in this podcast at the links below:

• Humber and North Yorkshire Green Social Prescribing ‘Test and Learn 'Programme Final Report – April 2023
• The national GSP Programme have produced a GSP Toolkit
• Centre For Sustainable Healthcare page on Green Spaces and Health
• NHS Forest
• An evidence review on how the natural environment can support health and wellbeing through social prescribing

Did you know that YORLMC offers practices access to a range of legal services, including several that are fully funded and available free to access?

LMC Law works for LMCs and GPs across the country providing support to LMCs and their constituents and providing advice on a variety of issues.

There’s more information on the YORLMC website about services available for practices from LMC Law.

March 2024 marks the 3-year anniversary of GPMplus, which offers mentoring and wellbeing services for primary care across Humber & North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

This podcast is a discussion between

• Dr Danielle Hann, GPMplus Wellbeing Lead
• Dr Jonathan Dixon, GPMplus Mentoring Lead
• Dr John Bibby, GPMplus Healthy Practice Lead

In this episode you will hear about

• How to access GPMplus mentoring services
• Healthy Practice education courses
• The 6-month Healthy Practice programme

To find out more and to access these services, please visit the GPMplus website.

Find out more about being a YORLMC member in this discussion between York Locality Member Dr Naomi Chinn and YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor.

All locality seats on North Yorkshire & York and Bradford & Airedale LMC will be up for election early next year and in this podcast, Naomi and Brian look at

• the opportunities of being a member
• why to consider standing
• induction and development for members
• forthcoming elections

If you would like more information about becoming a member, please contact YORLMC on info@yorlmcltd.co.uk

As part of YORLMC’s ongoing support for practices, in July 2022 YORLMC launched GPAS (General Practice Alert System). Developed by colleagues at Devon LMC, GPAS (General Practice Alert State) collects an amount of anonymised data from practices.  This anonymised data from individual practices is combined to indicate to the broader NHS system the pressure General Practice is under.

In this episode, YORLMC Strategy & Development Officer Jack Burgess and Medical Director Dr Danielle Hann look back on the first year of GPAS in North Yorkshire & York and Bradford & Airedale, and how your data is helping demonstrate the challenges currently facing general practice.

As mentioned in the podcast, YORLMC has published reports summarising and analysing the year's worth of GPAS data. You can view these on the YORLMC website.

For practices with any questions about GPAS, please get in touch with Jack on jack.burgess@yorlmcltd.co.uk

Find out more about the GPMplus suite of Practice Systems Resilience courses in this discussion between GPMplus Healthy Practice Lead Dr John Bibby and two of our course facilitators, Dr Richard Hall and Anita Hampson.

In this episode, John, Richard and Anita talk about five of our courses:

• Practice Systems Resilience half-day course
• Contingency Planning for Crisis Aversion
• New to General Practice Partnership
• Financial and Business Resilience
• 1/3/5 year Business Planning

Hear more about what you can expect from each of these courses and who would benefit from each course.

You can find out more and book your place on any of our courses on the GPMplus website.

This special edition of the YORLMC podcast is a recording of a presentation from Dr Kathryn Howe given at the GPMplus Wellbeing Conferences in October 2023. In this podcast, Kathryn talks about her own personal experience of receiving mentoring from GPMplus and how much it has helped her in her career.

Find out more about the pastoral support offer from YORLMC in this Podcast Soundbite from YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor.

YORLMC has a comprehensive pastoral care team with many years’ experience of defence bodies, NHSE and GMC procedures and is able to provide personal and confidential support for individual GPs in difficulty or experiencing major change. See the YORLMC website for more information.

Hear from GPMplus Mentoring Lead Dr Jonathan Dixon and mentor Ian Wilson about the service available from GPMplus for dentists and how mentoring can help you at all stages of your career.

For more information, or to access mentoring, please visit the GPMplus website. The service for dentists is currently available in Humber & North Yorkshire and will be launched shortly in West Yorkshire.

Find out more about how YORLMC can help you as a GP Registrar in this special edition of our podcast.

YORLMC members Dr Ummara Makhdoom and Dr Jess Wheeler talk about how they became LMC members, ways for GPRs to get involved and the services available including wellbeing and mentoring.

Please see below some more details and links about topics mentioned in the podcast.

• Dates of future meetings are available for Bradford & Airedale and North Yorkshire & York. If you would be interested in coming to a meeting please contact info@yorlmcltd.co.uk
• There's information on the YORLMC website about environmental initiatives and resources. To join our practice Green Champions mailing list please email info@yorlmcltd.co.uk
• There's more information on the GPMplus website about mentoring, wellbeing courses and the Healthy Practice Programme.
• NHS Practitioner Health
• BMA wellbeing

Listen to a 2-minute update on the BMA's GP contract ballot from YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor.

Find out more about the GP contract ballot on the BMA website where you will also find more information about joining the BMA.

The UK LMC Conference took place in London on 23 and 24 May. Dr Danielle Hann, YORLMC Medical Director and BA Branch Deputy Chair, and Dr Rameez Rahman, YORLMC GP trainee member for Bradford, attended the conference. This is their update on the conference.

YORLMC members Dr Abbie Brooks and Dr Andrew Moriarty discuss appraisals with Dr Yasmin Khan, Responsible Officer for GPs across Yorkshire & Humber.

Find out more about:

• How the appraisals process works
• What is the Responsible Officer role
• Performance Management
• The role of the GMC
• Wellbeing
• How you can get support, including from YORLMC

An update from YORLMC Medical Secretary and GPC Member Dr Brian McGregor and YORLMC Bradford Locality Officer and GPC Member Dr Charles Strachan.

The BMA survival toolkit identifies 10 actions practices may choose to take as part of collective action.

YORLMC isn’t a trade union – we can’t direct you to take particular actions. But we have put together toolkits for North Yorkshire and Bradford & Airedale to help support discussions at practice, PCN or locality level.

These toolkits are available on the YORLMC website.

Hear more about the England LMC Conference with YORLMC members Dr Abbie Brooks and Dr Ummara Makhdoom.

Find out about: How the conference works Motions discussed at the November 2024 conference Who can attend Ways for everyone to get involved Preview of the March 2025 Special Conference

Dr Brian McGregor speaks to Cameron Fund Chair Dr Terry John and Deputy Chair Dr Rob Barnett about the Fund.

Their discussion includes:

• What is the Cameron Fund?
• Who can it help?
• What support and advice is available?
• How to access support?
• What being a member of the Cameron Fund means and how becoming a member can help?

For more information about the Cameron Fund you can visit their website here. There's more detail about how to get support from the Fund here.

There's information here about how to support the Cameron Fund when shopping online via Give as you Live.

GPMplus offers a range of full-funded courses for GPs and practice staff including a special course looking at The Green Practice. This 90 minute course, run on Zoom, looks at how green changes can improve health, reduce health inequalities, improve workload and reduce costs whilst mitigating against the climate crisis. It is designed to help you understand where you can make changes, and give you the tools to begin.

In this podcast, GPMplus Mentoring Lead Dr Jonathan Dixon talks to Dr Sally Franks, who in addition to being the GPMplus Associate Mentoring Lead also facilitates The Green Practice course. Sally and Jonathan discuss what you can expect from the course, the benefits it offers and who will find it most useful.

For more information about The Green Practice course, and to make a booking, please visit the GPMplus website.

Hear from YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor about changes announced in the budget about national insurance and the minimum wage.

This two-minute Podcast Soundbite includes news about a BMA calculator which can help practices to assess the impact to their finances. The calculator is available here (please note it needs a BMA member log-in).

An update from LMC Law director and lawyer Shanee Baker about partnership disputes and how to avoid them. Practice in the YORLMC area can access a range of services under the banner of YORLMC LAW, in conjunction with LMC Law Limited, which are designed to assist and facilitate legal advice and services to practices, primary care networks and federations. Find out more on the YORLMC website.

Hear from Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer about non-clinical environmental impacts from general practice including

• energy
• travel
• goods & services

and ideas and tips on how these impacts can be reduced.

There's more information and links from Matt here.

Practice Manager Joanne Rowe discuss her practice's experience of the Healthy Practice programme. In discussion with GPMplus Healthy Practice Clinical Lead, Dr John Bibby, Joanne talks about

• the impact the programme had at her practice
• improvements in staff wellbeing
• the value of the Healthy Practice courses, offered as part of this programme and available separately

Find out more about the Healthy Practice programme, including how to apply to take part, on the GPMplus website.

This episode of our Podcast Soundbite looks at our monthly Q&A sessions, hosted by YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor. In this podcast, find out more from Brian about the Q&As and how to book your place.

For details and booking links for future Q&As please visit the events page on the YORLMC website.

Find out more about collective action in this 2-minute Podcast Soundbite from YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor.

There's more information about collective action and the GP practice survival toolkit on the BMA website.

Hear from local GPs Dr Matt Sawyer, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Margaret Jackson about the Greener Practice project. Take a look at the Greener Practice website for more information.

This is the first in what will be a series of podcasts from Matt, Rumina and Margaret. Please get in touch with YORLMC on info@yorlmcltd.co.uk if there are any particular environmental topics you would like us to cover in future episodes.

In this environmental special edition of our podcast, YORLMC members Dr Emily Appleyard and Dr Jess Wheeler speak to Dr Matt Sawyer and Dr Mike Tomson about their work around environmentally sustainable primary care.

Hear in this podcast about:

• Clinical and non-clinical actions to take in practice.
• How to look at your practice's carbon footprint.
• What are good first steps for a practice to make?

You can find out more about the topics discussed in this podcast at the links below:

• GP carbon calculator
• Greener Practice
• Resources from Greener Practice NY
• The Greening of Life

Matt and Mike have edited a book about Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care - available here

Hear from North Yorkshire LMC Deputy Chair Dr Andrew Moriarty and LMC Officer Dr Felicity Day about their experiences at the UK LMC Conference in May 2024.

Andrew and Felicity talk about some of the key motions debated at the conference as well as how you can share your thoughts on future conference motions with YORLMC on info@yorlmcltd.co.uk

Find out more about YORLMC in this special edition of our podcast for GP trainees.

Hear more about:

• What is an LMC.
• Why they both got involved with YORLMC.
• The impact YORLMC can have on the day to day working lives of all GPs, including trainees.
• The national picture.
• Mentoring and wellbeing services available for all GPs, including trainees, from GPMplus.

You can get in touch with the YORLMC office on info@yorlmcltd.co.uk

Hear from Practice Managers Joanne Rowe and Chris Brennan about YORLMC's work on primary-secondary interface, how to report concerns to YORLMC and how we can help.

Listen to the next in a series of Environmental Specials from Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer. This episode focuses on inappropriate overmedicalisation and tips that GPs and practices may wish to consider.

The optimal testing infographic, mentioned in the podcast, is available on the Greener Practice website.

Hear from Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer about waste and recycling looking at

• what can be done in the practice
• what can patients do at home

The podcast mentions Healthcare LCA, which is a database of environmental assessments within healthcare. Have a look at this online database here.

Please also take a look at this link from Rumina to a range of infographics and posters, including a guide to 'which bin'.

Details about the e-lfh module for waste management are available here.

Find out more about the Cameron Fund from the Fund's Chair Dr Gary Calver and YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor.

An update from LMC Law director and lawyer Shanee Baker about contracts including

• what is a contract?
• what is a memorandum of understanding?
• what should I look out for in a contract?

Practices in the YORLMC area can access a range of services under the banner of YORLMC LAW, in conjunction with LMC Law Limited, which are designed to assist and facilitate legal advice and services to practices, primary care networks and federations. Find out more on the YORLMC website.