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Dear Members,

The April meeting will be held on THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2016. Dr Sandeep Bawa, Consultant Rheumatologist and General Physician will kindly lead the session and give us an update on rheumatological conditions.

Usual venue : LMC building, 40 New City Road, G4 9JT. A light meal will be served at 6:30pm and the talk will start at 7pm promptly. Please let us know in advance if you are coming (for catering and CPD certificates) by sending an email to Elaine at [email protected]

Dear Members,

Please note that the forthcoming March GLG meeting will be held on the following date THURSDAY 10 MARCH 2016. Dr Stephen Gallacher, Consultant Physician will kindly lead the session and give us an update on diagnosis and management of Diabetes.

Usual venue : LMC building, 40 New City Road, G4 9JT. A light meal will be served at 6:30pm and the talk will start at 7pm promptly. Please let us know in advance if you are coming (for catering and CPD certificates) by sending an email to Elaine at a[email protected]

Hello all, sorry for the late notice!

This month's meeting will be "Topics in Psychiatry" and will be held on Thursday 18 February. Dr Pavan Srireddy, Consultant Psychiatrist and Lead Clinician at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will kindly lead the session.

Usual venue : LMC building, 40 New City Road, G4 9JT. A light meal will be served at 6:30pm and the talk will start at 7pm promptly. Please let us know in advance if you are coming (for catering and CPD certificates) by sending an email to Elaine at [email protected]

(FULL MEETING) The January meeting is the first BLS training session planned and attendees have received confirmation individually. Please bring the subsidised fee of £10 per attendee for the session which will commence at 7 pm promptly. Usual venue, some nibbles will be served from 6:30pm. 

NB: We apologise that capacity for each BLS session is fixed and restricted, so we cannot accept unconfirmed attendees on the day. Please let us know if you have a confirmed place but can no longer attend.

We do have a waiting list and at least one further session is confirmed for Tuesday 2 February 2015, details to follow. Further sessions if there is the demand.

If you have not already informed us that you wish to be on the BLS waiting list, please do so by the end of this week at ad[email protected]

The next meeting will be held on Thursday 19 November 2015.

Dr Patricia Moultrie, medical co-secretary and sessional representative of Glasgow LMC will introduce the LMC and provide local updates.  In the second half, committee members will facilitate feedback on how GLG and the website is serving its members.

The venue is the LMC building, 40 New City Road, G4 9JT. A cold buffet will be served at 6:30pm and the talk will start at 7pm promptly.

Please let us know in advance if you are coming by sending an email to a[email protected]

The BLS session booked for Thursday 21 January 2016 is now full, but please let us know if you are still interested as we now have a waiting list and plan to have further session(s) as per demand, we will aim to have them on different days of the week to improve access for all GPs.

Kind regards

GLG

Thank you all for your kind input with the survey, some really helpful themes are emerging.

The results so far are live at this link

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-KSRKXP6C/

It appears that over 80% of us rate the website as average to good but plenty of helpful points for improvement highlighted, so thanks all!

 (ps: the survey is still open so if you would like to feed back, please do so at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP6GLQJ)

Just an update from GLG to say an online survey is live at the moment for you to give your feedback at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SP6GLQJ

Interim anaysis has led to a change already : Now when you opt to receive email notifications, the full posting or job advert will be emailed to your inbox, so very similar to before the website was upgraded.
Hope that's helpful, keep the comments coming, thanks!

This month our meeting will be held on Thursday 15th October, with the buffet at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

Our speaker is Dr Jasmeet Singh and the topic will be "Organ & Tissue Donation Awareness for GPs" The meeting will also have small work group sessions, presentations, questions, debates & scenarios included.

Our meeting will be held in the Glasgow Locum Group, 40 New City Road, Glasgow, G4 9JT. If you wish to attend, can I ask you to inform us at the following email address, for catering numbers: [email protected]

Many thanks for your support

The next meeting is on Child Protection training and will be held on Thursday 17 september. Dr Kerry Milligan, GP specialist from the GG&C Child Protection Unit will kindly join us as she has done in recent years for this meeting. Feel free to bring anonymised cases to discuss if you wish!

The venue is the LMC building, 40 New City Road, G4 9JT. A cold buffet will be served at 6:30pm and the talk will start at 7pm promptly. Please let us know in advance if you are coming (for catering and CPD certificates) by sending an email to [email protected]