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General Practice: Critically Endangered - Facing Extinction Last Thursday, GPC England met at BMA House for the first meeting of 2026; this week marked ‘Blue Monday’ - the lowest emotional […]

As 2025 draws to a close we bring you the last newsletter of the year, updating you on what’s been happening over the past few weeks and looking forward to […]

No more point scoring – let’s prioritise practice wellbeing and patient safety Yesterday, the Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, wrote to all GPs in England. […]

LMC England Conference 2025 update Watch a clip of my speech The 2025 LMC England Conference took place last week in Manchester, where we debated our current dispute around not […]

Online consultation contractual changes survey On 1 October 2025, GP practices in England became contractually obliged to make online consultation tools available to patients throughout the practice's contractual core hours […]

GPC England in dispute I know many of you are really struggling with increased online demand. Your GPC England chair has this afternoon, written to Mr Streeting explaining when online […]

GPC England in dispute over unsafe contract changes This week, on Wednesday 1 October, GPC England entered into dispute with the Government over contract changes that are unsafe. The Government, […]

GPC England votes to enter dispute from 1 October At the GPC England meeting yesterday, the committee voted to go back into dispute with the Government, DHSC and NHS England […]

Upcoming contractual changes from 1 October We are acutely aware of the deep concern and growing frustration centred around the upcoming contractual changes on online consultations. This, against the backdrop […]

Following the GPC England meeting in July, we wrote to Stephen Kinnock MP, to set out the conditions that must be met by the time GPCE next meets on 18 […]