GP contract imposition and referendum GPC England met on 26 February and voted to reject the Government’s 2026/27 GMS contract and to open a contract referendum of the profession on […]

The BMA’s GP committee for England (GPC England) has overwhelmingly voted to reject the Government’s unrealistic and unsafe plans to impose changes to GP practice contracts, calling for the Government […]

General Practice: Critically Endangered, Facing Extinction The Government has indicated they will share their final positions on the 2026/27 GP contract changes in England next week and we await the […]

General Practice: Critically Endangered - Facing Extinction Many thanks to those of you who logged in to last week’s webinars. It was great to connect with over a thousand GPs […]

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 […]