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**Please find below the latest primary care coronavirus briefing.**

Information provided by NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG, NHS South Warwickshire CCG and NHS Warwickshire North CCG in line with Public Health England guidance.

This information may change rapidly as the situation develops. For the latest local information for primary care, visit our dedicated Coventry and Warwickshire COVID-19 support portal: https://www.cwcovid.support/  

You can also find the latest national information on the NHS England Primary Care site: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care

In today's briefing we include the latest news stories falling into the following categories:

Local Updates

Place Updates

Communications from NHS England

Education

Latest Local Picture

Latest National Picture

Please click on the relevant section above to view specific information

1. Referring to Hot Hubs 

While the majority of referrals to the Hot Hubs are appropriate, there are a small number of patients who could have been more appropriately seen by their GP Practice. 

Your help would be appreciated if you could ensure that only patients who have been triaged, are symptomatic and who you are unable to see remotely are referred to a Hot Hub. 

When you do refer patients please remind them that they will not get a definite diagnosis of COVID at a Hot Hub, for this they will need to book a test via online via the national government website or call 119.

2. Protect yourself, your family and our patients from flu this winter

This year, due to the potential impact of flu and COVID-19 circulating at the same time, it’s more important than ever that we act to protect ourselves, our teams, our families and patients from getting flu.

Read the letter from NHS England and Improvement urging all frontline staff to get the flu vaccination this year.

3. Flu vaccination posters 

We are pleased to inform you that the following posters for the 2020/21 Flu season are now available on .gov.uk. PDF versions are also attached below for ease.

 

Which flu vaccines should children have poster – product code: 2020173

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flu-vaccines-for-the-current-season

Open the PDF here. 

 

Flu vaccines for 2020 to 2021 poster – product code: 2020195

Open the PDF here. 

Please note that when you view these links on the .gov.uk link you will no longer see an icon of what these posters look like on the left hand side (you will see a blank cell). When you click on the links you will be immediately redirected to the Health Publications (.gov.uk) website, and it is from that site that you can download the digital copy.

 

If you have any queries about these posters please contact Immunisation@phe.gov.uk

4. Recognising COVID-19 symptoms poster 

Following a request from a GP practice, we have developed a poster for each CCG to share with patients to support them in recognising COVID-19 symptoms. Please upload the appropriate poster to your website and share on your social media channel(s) to support patients recognise COVID-19 symptoms from a common cold or flu, as we move into the winter months. 

Coventry and Rugby CCG 

Warwickshire North CCG 

South Warwickshire CCG

Generic NHS logo

5. Hands Face Space Campaign 

HM Government has launched Hands. Face. Space, a new campaign that urges the public to continue to wash their hands, cover their face and make space to control infection rates. The spread of coronavirus, particularly in enclosed spaces is shown in a new film, produced with experts in the field, which highlights the risk in simple, everyday interactions. The campaign will run across TV, radio, print, out of home, social and digital display advertising. GP practices can help to spread the message to patients by sharing campaign materials through their channels. 

6. West Midlands Cervical Screening Services:

Electronic Requesting – System Updates

In preparation to transitioning to Electronic Requesting for HPV cervical screening tests, RWT are working with your GP systems suppliers to update the configuration in your system. Over the next few weeks you will notice a new link appear for within your test request options titled ‘West Midlands Cytology Service BCPS’. This is the link that will be used when we move to e-requesting to request a test, you may also be prompted with a log in box requesting you add your username/password. This information will be provided to you when we implement within your practice. I appreciate that this may be an inconvenience in the meantime so we suggest that you that you deactivate in the background within your EMIS system. – Please see attached ‘Deactivating EMIS GP Interop Guidance' until we are ready to implement.

 

Should you have any further questions then please contact:

IT Project Team/Enquires rwh-tr.ict-hpv@nhs.net

If you would like to find out more about West Midlands Screening Services, read their latest newsletter here

7. Coventry and Warwickshire - Diabetes Newsletter, issue 8 

The latest edition of the Diabetes Newsletter includes information on the Healthier You: NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme including workshops for you to attend, diabetes community champions and the new wellbeing support service which is now live in Coventry, Rugby and Warwickshire North. 

8. Coventry and Warwickshire Primary Care Cancer Newsletter

The latest edition of the Primary Care Cancer Newsletter includes information on service updates, Early Diagnosis for Cancer QOF QI 2020/21, Stoptober 2020 and much more. 

9. Action Learning Set: Leading Prevention in Clinical Services

Health Education England, in partnership with Public Health England, are working to recruit and support a group of health care leaders from clinical settings across the North West and Midlands areas into an Action Learning Programme.

 

The aim of the programme is to support a range of health and care professions, to develop their own population health skills through designing, implementing, testing and evaluating a small-scale health improvement project within their sphere of practice.

 

Participants will be supported remotely via an Action Learning Set to utilise the PHE developed toolkit for Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services to identify ideas and test public health interventions in their own field of practice.

Find out more here 

NO UPDATES FOR South Warwickshire – 22 September 2020

 

NO UPDATES FOR Warwickshire North – 22 September 2020 

NO UPDATES FOR Coventry and Rugby – 22 September 2020

10. COVID-19: Primary Care Bulletin - 18 September 2020 (Issue 67)

Dr Nikki Kanani GP and Medical Director for Primary Care and Ed Waller, Director for Primary Care Strategy and NHS Contracts bring you the latest updates in their letter issued on Friday (18 September). This edition includes an update on PHE's Acute Shortages Guidance, technical specifications for PPE, flu reminders and updates and much more. Read it here.

11. COVID-19 General Practice Webinar Recordings and slides

An archive of the national primary care webinars and slides are available online from the NHS Future NHS site: https://future.nhs.uk/P_C_N/view?objectID=19549104 (a login is required).

12. Media enquiries

A reminder that our communications team is here to support you if needed. If you are approached by the media, please forward on to your local communications team: agem.communications@nhs.net. Outside of working hours the communications team can be reached via 01522 537887. 

Please note all sessions are open to all localities

13. Warwickshire North GP & Clinician Virtual PLT 

Please find below the details of tomorrow's virtual PLT event, around Virtual First Proactive Care which will include some National as well as Local Presenters:

Date: Wednesday 23 September 2020

Time: 1.30 - 5.00pm

Location: Microsoft Teams- joining details below:

Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

Learn more about Teams | Meeting options

The session is open to all Clinicians as well as Practice Managers and any other staff, the agenda attached; please be aware that Out of Hours cover has been arranged for your practice as with previous PLTs.

 

If you are unable to join the session at the scheduled time, it will be recorded and available to view on the Care for Your Career website. There are already 8 previous session recordings on the website including: Cancer Pathways, COVID Hot Topics and Impact on BAME people, Mental Health & Using Technology during COVID, Managing the breathless patient- Heart Failure & Haematology Update, AccuRx Demonstration & EOL, Managing breathless patient- COPD update and Elderly medicines Review, Perils of Using Social Media- BMA talk and a DOCOBO Demonstration.

 

The next WN PLT will be on Wednesday 28 October 2020, 1:30 – 5:00pm – Theme TBA .

14. Cov & Warks LMNS Smoking in Pregnancy Review webinar 

Join the webinar to hear about the findings from the review into smoking in pregnancy, undertaken by Berni Lee, Public Health Consultant between October-April 2020. The webinar will take place on Tuesday 29 September at 12.30-13.30 and you can access it here

 

Please note: we are now issuing the briefing once a week (Tuesday) communications via: warnoccg.covid19primarycarecommunications@nhs.net. We would also ask that if you have questions or concerns relating to the current situation around coronavirus and COVID-19 you use the same address: warnoccg.covid19primarycarecommunications@nhs.net. Please keep us updated with any issues that you may be having so we can try to address them.

Please note that the below data does not include care home data.  

Click here to view the latest local confirmed cases, patients in hospital beds and death counts in hospitals across Coventry and Warwickshire. 

Latest National Picture

As of Monday 21 September 2020 at 4:00pm: 

the total number of COVID-19 associated UK deaths is 41,788

the daily total of 4,368 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK, a total of 398,625

there are a total of 37,487 cases in the West Midlands

The latest reproduction number (R) and growth rate of COVID-19 in the UK

Guidance on the NHS Test and Trace service for employers, businesses and workers

Click here to view the slides to accompany coronavirus data briefing: 21 September 2020

Click here to view slides, datasets and transcripts to accompany coronavirus press conferences

Click here to view the new measures in response to the acceleration of coronavirus

Click here to view the Chief Scientific Advisor and Chief Medical Officer briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19): 21 September 2020

The latest advice is here

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