7th April 2021 GG&C LDC Update
06 April 2021
£500 NHS Bonus; PECOS Ordering; Whistleblowing
- £500 NHS WORKER BONUS NOW PAID
- The bonus monies were paid into nominated practice accounts on 31st March 2021
- Practices should now make arrangements to disperse these to all staff who qualified.
- The designated person should have received a breakdown of the amounts for each individual staff member in an email.
- Amounts were pro-rata’d at whatever percentage Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) was claimed.
- Employees and associates should be made aware of how and when this will be paid.
- The practice is only to act as an intermediary and should not keep any percentage of these monies.
- PSD FAQs on these payments are available here.
- Any queries about payments should be collated by the designated person and submitted as one bundle to this email address.
- The bonus monies were paid into nominated practice accounts on 31st March 2021
- DISPOSAL 3M 1863 MASKS
- The 3M 1863 revalidated supplies that were provided to dental practices expired on MARCH 31st 2021.
- You must dispose of any unused stock as domestic waste.
- The 3M 1863+ masks (note the subtle ‘+’ at the end) are not affected.
- ACCESSING YOUR GENERIC INBOX
- All important emails specific to your practice continue to be delivered to your practice generic inbox
- Please see this guide to accessing the generic inbox (only designated persons will be able to access this).
- Practices must check this regularly.
- PPE PECOS ORDERING
- GG&C standard PPE (aprons, gloves, masks, visors) can now only be ordered via PECOS.
- The next orders MUST BE IN BY NOON 8TH APRIL, if you miss the deadline you will not receive any PPE in the next delivery.
- A training video, PECOS guidance, and GG&C guidance are available for those who didn’t make the webinar.
- Every practice will have an allocation based on their pre-COVID activity
- It is for practices to know what their allocation is and stick to it.
- It is our understanding that the system is not clever enough to block over-ordering at the basket/check-out stage, corrections are made at the other side.
- Practices will be able to limit the volume of certain items that take up a lot of space (eg Visors).
- NSS will send an advance supply of simple PPE to GGC dental practices w/c April 5th to see practices through until the first online delivery w/c April 19th
- Orders placed and delivered via PECOS will not include enhanced PPE such as FFP3 masks and gowns for time-being; the current arrangement of collection from Stobhill hospital remains in place at this time.
- PPE Contact Details:
- PECOS issues should be raised via Service Now Portal
- Allocation queries should be emailed to OHD
- Delivery Queries: Call Menzies on 0141 568 4293
- Quality issues email procurement
- NEW WHISTLEBLOWING PROCEDURES
- From April 1st 2021 an Independent National Whistleblowing Ombudsman was established.
- As such, new whistleblowing guidance has been published.
- We are advised that dental practices will receive guidance on how to implement this in coming months.
- VACCINATION MOP UP CLINIC
- The next ‘mop-up’ clinic for Covid Vaccine first doses can be booked via this link
- This is for first doses only (for those who couldn’t have first doses in Dec/Jan due to covid or pregnancy etc).
- Team members with allergy issues should not use this link and should instead make themselves known to occupational health.
- The next ‘mop-up’ clinic for Covid Vaccine first doses can be booked via this link