Safeguarding
The following is a list of obligations relating to Certification by GPs:
GPs are obliged to provide data essential for a clinical referral free of charge.
A GP has a statutory duty to supply a registered patient, free of charge, with any of the prescribed certificates set out in Schedule 4 of...
2023
Posters for Point of care recording - COVID-19 vaccinations
Access to vaccination for displaced population groups
Childrens programme update 11.10.23
COVID-19 vaccines - Quick reference guide
NHSE National Protocols for COVID-19
Covid-19 Vaccination Enhanced Service Specification...
Original Document: Response to the Supreme Court Judgment/ Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
LMC Commentary December 2015
This important document, The Department of Health Guidance: Response to the Supreme Court Judgement/Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), refers to a judgement given in...
It's easy to assume that domestic abuse only affects partners or ex-partners within a relationship. However, an increasingly common form of abuse, with potentially devastating results, is set to challenge those inherent beliefs. In 2014/15, 3% of the approx. 700 referrals to Somerset's...
Safeguarding Children - A Beginner's Guide (with acknowledgements to Wessex LMCs)
RCGP supplementary guide to safeguarding training requirements for all primary care staff
Although the intercollegiate document 'Safeguarding Children and Young people: roles and competences for health care...
Issue 200
Controlled Drug Abuse and Security of Blank Prescription Forms
Domestic Violence
Survey for GPs
Annual LMC Awards
Somerset Local Medical Benevolent Fund Charitable Donations
Dr Whimsy's Casebook
Medical Records - Adopted Children (with acknowledgements to Wessex LMCs)
Under adoption legislation an adopted child is given a new NHS number and all previous medical information relating to that child is put into a newly created health record. Any information relating to the identity or...
A new public awareness raising campaign, called 'Thinking it? Report it', launched in Somerset encouraging people to make contact with Adult Social Care if they think someone is being harmed.
The campaign has been launched with the direct support of the Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board...
This Useful table highlights the common themes identified in inspection reports mapped against each Key Line of Enquiry (KLOE) for Safeguarding
