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This page lists out of date documents that may be useful for reference purposes

Appraisal	Appraisal Annual Report January 2007 (Apr 07) 2004-05 Annual Report (Feb 05) Quality Assurance of Herts Appraisal Project (Apr 06) LMC: GP Appraisal - A Summary of National Guidance (March 02)
CRB Checks	GPC guidance Enhanced CRB disclosures "catch up" exercise (Aug 04) LMC Guidance: Catchup Beds GPs (Aug 04) LMC Guidance: Catchup Herts GPs (Aug 04)
Disability	LMC: Information on Disability Discrimination (2004)
Fees	BMA guidance note on Collaborative Arrangements (May 06)
Freedom of Information Act	GPC Guidance: Freedom of Information Act 2000 - FAQs (May 05) GPC guidance: Freedom of Information Act (Dec 04) LMC's digest. (Oct 03)
nGMS	Joint Implementation Letter from Mike Farrar, NHS Confederation negotiating team, and John Chisholm, GPC. Joint Implementation Letter - England Annex nGMS Contract variation Dec 05 Default contracts - message to all GPs (Mar 04) Focus on Standard and Default Contracts (Mar 04) Focus on GMS Indicative Contractor Budgets (Feb 04) Focus on Preparing for Implementation (Jan 04) GMS2 Updates LMC Briefings on the New Contract We sent all practices one copy of a guidance pack which contained briefing notes specially written to help practices understand the 'culture change' in the way PCTs will be commissioning GMS services from a variety of providers. We reproduce these for you below. Please use them to help your planning for the future of your practice. 1. Introduction & Overview 2. Essential, Additional & Enhanced Services 3. Financial Issues 4. Human Resources & Practice Management 5. Information, IT & the Quality & Outcomes Framework 6. Out of Hours Responsibilities New GMS Contract and PMS Snippets from the LMC Essential Information for GPs and Practices New GMS contract and changes to PMS Summary of latest information available to practices as of 8 October 2003 Focus on OOH (Out of Hours) (Aug 03) Focus on Nature of the Contract and Partnerships (Sept 03) Focus on Funding for Information Management & Technology (Sept 03) Focus on Quality & Outcomes Framework (Aug 03) The NHS Confederation has drawn up a series of ten briefing sheets Contract Briefing 11 September 2003
PCTs	A Call for Courage, an investigation by a Select Committee of Hertfordshire GPs and Practice Managers, supported by Beds and Herts LMC, concludes that there is a serious crisis in the utilisation of funding in primary care. To find out how the this story was reported in the Guardian national newspaper's web pages, please click here. (June 03)
Performers Lists	GPC: Implementing the primary care aspects of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 - Supplementary and principal lists: Guidance for GPs and GP Registrars (Feb 02)
PMS	PMS Update for all practices - guidance for Wave 4B prospective pilots starting in October 2002 - The Third in a series of LMC Guidance notes on PMS Salaried GPs in PMS - The Sixth in a series of LMC Guidance notes on PMS (replaces four and five) (Sept 03) Of particular interest to Wave 5 GPs. Also includes changes to Out of Hours arrangements - The Seventh in a series of LMC Guidance notes on PMS (Jan 03)
QOF	BMA guidance Quality & Outcomes Framework guidance revisions August 2004
Substance Abuse	Substance Abuse Herts policy (Nov 01) Beds policy on the treatment of drug users in Bedfordshire (Nov 01)