18 December 2025
Welcome to this week’s Primary Care Bulletin, bringing together the latest operational updates, alerts and learning opportunities for general practice teams across North West London.
Key points this week include:
- COVID-19 seasonal vaccination programme – autumn/winter 2025
- change to request Direct Access Gastroscopy
- help shape inclusive patient messaging across the NHS
- update on neurosurgery referrals via e-RS
- prescribing oseltamivir (Tamiflu)
- Bank holiday opening – commissioned community pharmacy bank holiday opening
- the NHSE interim NHS App training and education hub is live
- NeuroSmart webinars
- register for UKHSA’s free monthly vaccine bulletin
- webinar: changes to the routine vaccination schedule recap.
This is the last bulletin of 2025. The next edition will be sent on Wednesday 7 January 2026 (content deadline: 3pm Monday 5 January 2026) and will continue on a regular schedule thereafter.
If you need to share an urgent message with primary care, please email nhsnwl.communications.nwl@nhs.net.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all colleagues working in primary care a happy Christmas and New Year.