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GP accountant to field questions from sessional GPs next month
Tori Ferguson, a tax manager at the specialist medical firm Honey Barrett, will take questions from sessional GPs ahead of her talk to NASGP members on Thursday 5 September.
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.
GPs to be added to ARRS scheme amidst calls for core funding
GPs and practice managers warned that ARRS funding at most PCNs has already been spent, is short-term, and that sessional GPs should be paid through core funding.
Locums unemployed during access crisis ‘absurd’, GPs tell Health Sec
Some 9,765 GPs, registrars and retired GPs have signed a new open letter from the RCGP.
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.
Health secretary: Labour ‘committed to reversing’ GP funding cuts
Streeting added that improving continuity was another priority for the new Government.
Over 500k taxpayers caught by 60% tax trap
More than half a million UK taxpayers – nearly a quarter more than last year – are now paying 60% tax due to frozen thresholds.
Incoming Labour government to ‘reform primary care appointments’
Other commitments include: training ‘thousands’ more GPs, a ‘guarantee’ for face-to-face and incentivising a named-GP-style scheme.
GPs to submit questions for September locum accountancy event
GPs can ask questions and get advice from specialist medical accountant Tori Ferguson at NASGP’s free webinar in September.
BMA launches legal action against GMC over physician associates
Members also vote over whether GPs could withdraw fees.
Last chance to sign up for NASGP’s July menopause and HRT webinar
Dr Elphinstone will deliver a webinar on the subject of menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in general practice.
Long-term GP vacancies still running at 22 per cent, new survey finds
Yet six in 10 GPs found it ‘moderately difficult’ or ‘very difficult’ to find an appropriate vacancy to apply for in the past year.
Stop hiring physician associates, Royal College advises GPs
The College has also advised GPs to triage every patient a PA sees.
GPs publish new sessional guidance on supervising physician associates
Supervision of PAs must be ‘expressly and mutually agreed’, the sessional GP subcommittee wrote.
GP locum in Wiltshire heckles Rishi Sunak over ‘disintegrating’ NHS
Dr Jane Lees-Millais warned the PM that the NHS is ‘disintegrating’.
Menopause and HRT expert Dr Eloise Elphinstone to give NASGP’s July talk
Dr Eloise Elphinstone will deliver NASGP’s webinar on Thursday 4 July at 1pm.
GPs see year on year growth on LocumDeck amid scarcity concerns
GPs working in NASGP’s seven regional ICB partnerships have worked 15% more sessions year on year, according to original LocumDeck data.
Three days left to sign up for free obesity in general practice talk
Dr Varun Anand, former Chair of the RCGP Nutrition and Lifestyle Special Interest Group, will deliver our monthly clinical webinar.
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.
Obesity in general practice event launched for members next month
Dr Varun Anand will deliver a talk on obesity, including its impact on risk of liver disease, for NASGP members at next month’s clinical webinar.
Over 900 FTE GPs left the profession following 2019 GP contract
General practice lost 2,900 partners as GP workforce shrank during five-year contract.
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”.