Category: BMA

News and advice on sessional GPs and the BMA including the subcommittee, the model contract, and advice on GP rates, pay and pension.

GP strike action 2025/26 supported by new resident doctors’ ballot: BMA

First-year resident doctors (FY1s) voted for a mandate for industrial action as part of their own ongoing pay dispute.

GP contract wording initiates BMA audit, vote of no confidence

A contract variation notice published last month told practices they must be available to patients throughout core hours.

GPs could strike if no new funding emerges by September, GPC warns

The GPC warned that the union would ballot GPs on industrial action again if their demands are not met by 18 September.

GPs ‘must get ARRS money’, plus extra, BMA GP committee demands

Chair of the GPC has warned that GPs need ‘emergency’ funding, as well as ARRS, to retain underemployed colleagues.

Video: Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, Londonwide LMCs’ CEO

Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, Chief Executive Officer of Londonwide LMCs, reflects on her career trajectory from a salaried GP to prominent leadership roles in NHS commissioning and Londonwide LMCs.

GP registrars schedule five-day strike following residents’ ballot

Talks with the Health Secretary last Thursday hinted at the possibility of averting strikes, for example through changes to residents doctors’ student loan debt.

Ten-Year Plan ‘could undermine general practice as we know it’: BMA

'The plan points to potentially profound changes that, in some instances, could seriously undermine the current practice model,' chair said.

Starting out as a salaried GP

Frequently-asked questions about practice, paperwork and training as a salaried GP.

Seven in 10 GP practices in England ‘now taking part in collective action’

The majority of practices in England (70%) are now taking some form of collective action, including limiting patient contacts to 25 a day, stopping any rationing of referrals, investigations and admissions, and offering voluntary services to plug local commissioning gaps.

GPC votes to ‘phase out’ physician associates from general practice

‘We need to be sure that staff who see patients are suitably trained and competent to see them unsupervised’, GPC chair said.

Employment for salaried GPs and locums could end collective action

‘A comprehensive substantive longer-term solution’ for unemployed and underemployed GPs could end collection action, authors of a new BMA document promise.

Six percent practice funding ‘not enough’, BMA warns salaried GPs

The BMA understands that the recommended uplift is 4.1% inclusive of the 1.9% GPs received from core practice contracts from April.

GPs vote overwhelmingly for collective action over funding

During the ballot, the BMA published nine proposals for actions that GPs could take, including limiting patient contacts to 25 a day per GP.

Prepare for GP ‘collective action’ from 1 August, NHS England warns

NHS England has now written to integrated care boards to request for them to plan to cope with GP ‘collective action’ from Thursday.

BMA launches legal action against GMC over physician associates

Members also vote over whether GPs could withdraw fees.

GPs publish new sessional guidance on supervising physician associates

Supervision of PAs must be ‘expressly and mutually agreed’, the sessional GP subcommittee wrote.

GPs to track admin workload with new free BMA tool, ‘GP Diary’

BMA members can add contracted hours and sessions, log workload and create reports to push back on admin and clinical overload ahead of industrial action.

GP partners to vote next month on ‘collective action’ from 1 August

The June ballot will decide whether or not GPs take action against the contract imposition from Thursday 1 August 2024.

GPs will vote to block physician associates from ‘anything but admin’

Second day of conference opens with a motion that “condemns the use of PAs in GP for anything other than administrative or simple procedural duties”.

First GP event launched over 2024 industrial action

Londonwide LMCs will host the GPC England roadshow in June, the first date announced since GPs voted overwhelmingly against the GP contract imposition.

Days left for GPs to vote as industrial action looms

Voting closes on Wednesday ahead of a GPC meeting on Thursday.

GPs urged to vote as BMA eyes winter 2024 industrial action

GPs in England have until 27 March to respond to a referendum on the GP contract which could inform a decision on industrial action in November, Londonwide LMCs warned.

GPC rejects ‘derisory’ 1.9% GP contract offer

Dr Bramall-Stainer told GPs: 'This regrettably falls far below what we realistically need to keep our heads above water.'

Survey: Physician associates pose ‘significant’ patient risk

LocumDeck, NASGP’s booking platform, includes a setting for each practice for locums to express their level of willingness to supervise non-GPs.