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16 July 2020

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Dear colleague

Please find below the latest GP update regarding Covid-19. If you are receiving this update as a practice manager, please make sure you do share it with your colleagues, including sessional GPs.

You can view the North West London password-protected GP extranet homepage using the details below.

As always, you are advised to review the full list of Covid-19-related service changes on a regular basis, to ensure you have not missed any notices.

Website: https://www.nwlondonccg.nhs.uk/professionals/coronavirus-clinical

Password: NWLCovid-19

Today’s update includes:

  • Referrals to Hillingdon Hospital
  • Second phase of general practice response to Covid-19
  • Message from North West London Pathology: Transfer of current anti-Tetanus Toxoid antibody in-house test to Binding Site VaccZyme IgG ELISA

 

Referrals to Hillingdon Hospital

ACTION: You can now refer patients to Hillingdon Hospital as normal. Read more here.

Following the guidance that you received last week regarding referrals while Hillingdon Hospital was temporarily closed to emergency admissions, we are pleased to confirm that Hillingdon Hospital is able to accept emergency referrals again from 2pm today. You can now refer patients to Hillingdon Hospital as normal.

Ambulances are no longer being diverted to other hospitals, except in the case of emergency respiratory patients, as this is the area which was most impacted by the recent outbreak of Covid-19 in the hospital.

 

Second phase of general practice response to Covid-19

ACTION: The main points for GPs are summarised here

Dr Nikita Kanani and Ed Waller (NHS England and Improvement) have published a letter on the second phase of general practice response to COVID-19, confirming contractual and income protection arrangements.

The main points of the letter are summarised in the link above.

 

Message from North West London Pathology: Transfer of current anti-Tetanus Toxoid antibody in-house test to Binding Site VaccZyme IgG ELISA

ACTION: Read the full message here

As part of our ongoing service efficiency improvement programme, North West London Pathology plan to transfer the current in-house anti-Tetanus Toxoid antibody test to the VaccZyme anti-Tetanus Toxoid IgG test offered by Binding Site.

The infection and Immunology Laboratory has shown that the VaccZyme kit meets UKAS accreditation standard for the introduction of a new test. There is good agreement between positive/negative results among our current in-house ELISA and the VaccZyme ELISA. There is no change in reference interval or turnaround times.

We plan to introduce the above change on the week commencing Monday 20 July 2020. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.