This week the Government has made a number of announcements, including resourcing GPs to deliver Advice and Guidance (A&G) at £20 per episode to be able to sort out clinical issues and queries […]

Collective action  Thank you for taking part in our collective action to protect our patients and practices.  We have updated our collective action webpage explaining in more detail the nine actions that practices can […]

National Insurance contributions  Last week, at the England national conference of LMCs, we debated the impact that the increase in employer National Insurance (NI) contributions have on GP practices and […]

Dear colleagues The Budget NI Blow  BMA UK Council met on Wednesday and emergency business included the Chair of Council, Professor Phil Banfield committing total support to our branch of […]

BMA GP opinion survey 2024 The latest BMA GP Opinion Survey has opened, and we need to hear from all GPs across the country.  This annual survey gathers GPs’ views […]

GP Action  The GPs Committee England met last week where we discussed the next steps of GP collective action as part of our ‘Protect your Patients and Protect your Practice‘ campaign and […]

GP Action  Now that summer is over and we know you’re keen to get stuck into Collective Action. We have given the new government an opportunity to get around the […]

Launch of BMA GP Safe Working Guidance Handbook Following the overwhelming YES vote in our ballot over the summer, practices are starting to take action as part of our ‘Protect your Patients and Protect […]

Practices taking action Following the overwhelming YES vote in our ballot practices are beginning to take action – the range of actions are all detailed on the toolkit menu on the BMA website. […]

An overwhelming 98.3% of members who voted in our ballot said YES to taking part in one or more suggested actions from the menu within our toolkit. This result clearly shows the united […]