Category: BMA

BMA holds urgent meeting with health secretary following PM’s ‘face-to-face’ comments

Public outcry over GP-bashing in UK parliament and media has led Dr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA chair, to request an urgent meeting with the prime minister.

Seek help from MPs to raise pay, retain salaried GPs, BMA urges

Local MPs can help fight the GP workforce slippage by calling for better GP salaries, the BMA told doctors this week.

GP locums must claim for £7.5k SEISS grants by June deadline, leaders warn

GPs must have filed a tax return for 2019/20 and worked (or expected to work) in 2020/21 to be eligible.

A third of locums say work is increasing, BMA reports

Of the 27.97% of respondents who undertook locum work, a third (9.32%) reported an increase. Just under a third (8.49%) reported no change, but said that they could have done more work had they wished to.

No jabs: 12% of GP locums still waiting for first Covid-19 vaccination, BMA warns 

A BMA poll last week found that 12% of locum GPs had not received their first vaccination against the virus by 23 January - compared with just 2% of partners and 7% of salaried GPs.

Sessional GPs ‘much less likely’ to get COVID vaccination despite JCVI priority, BMA survey finds

Without a centralised system for delivering the vaccine to healthcare workers, sessional GPs must undertake their own ‘trial and error’ strategy to get their first jab. 

GP locums urged to vote on primary care networks DES to protect GP funding, BMA says

GPs in England are being urged to use their vote on a new directed enhanced service (DES) about primary care networks (PCN). 

GPs put their lives on the line because of PPE shortages in first wave, BMA chair tells MPs

NHS Providers reported on an ‘extremely worrying surge in COVID-19 admissions’ last week. 

Government has left GPs to explain treatment delays, GPC Scotland chair warns

The Government’s failure to tell the public about treatment delays has left GPs and practice staff catching their anger and frustration, Dr Andrew Buist has warned. 

Practices can use £150m ‘second wave’ fund to hire GP locums, BMA confirms

The BMA’s new statement gives practices the support they need to make their own decisions about how to get through the second wave. 

GP locums lead the charge at 2020’s annual conference of local medical committees

GP locums are calling for safe working conditions, better training, and a seat at the table in primary care’s recovery from the pandemic at this year’s conference. 

Doctors and nurses need ‘psychological PPE’, says Prof Clare Gerada

NASGP fully supports Dame Prof Gerada’s calls for better support at work, and confidential services for clinicians to prevent mental ill health. 

BMA model salaried contract for PMS practices slips under radar

New sessional GP subcommittee chairman announced

Sessional GPs part 
of the solution

GP Partnerships snubbed by sessional GPs

£10 million injection to boost GP workforce in England

Sessional GPs need to adapt

The recent BMA sessional GP conference for salaried and locum GPs gave some advice on how we need to adapt to changes in the NHS.

Freelance GP locums, locum agencies and industrial action

GP locums to receive H1N1 vaccinations from their employing practices