GP Contract – News and Updates
- 22 October 2024 – Unfunded Work
The BMA have released a new short video on unfunded work. GPs are asked to consider serving notice on any voluntary services currently undertaken that plug local commissioning gaps and stop supporting the system at the expense of your patients, practice and staff.
- 09 September 2024 – Safe Working Guidance handbook published
The BMA has published its new Safe Working Guidance handbook. Visit the BMA’s safe working page where you’ll find the handbook; patient engagement advice; patient resources, template letters, mapping tools and more.
- 03 September 2024 – 81% of Humberside practices are taking collective action
Your practice can join them by:
- Choosing your action(s) to support general practice from the 10 options in the BMA’s GP Survival Toolkit. Read the LMC summary with advice for practices here.
- Need help with interface issues? There is an LMC template letter for workload rejection here and a BMA template letter with guidance to use if your referrals are rejected here.
- Check out the LMC GP Contract Resources page here for lots of guidance and resources, regularly updated.
- 04 August 2024 – Workload Rejection Template Letter
The LMC has published a template letter for practices to use when declining requests that are not part of the core GMS/PMS general practice contract.
- 31 July 2024 – LMC Contract Webinar Available to Watch Online
The recent LMC webinar on the GP contract 2024/25 and proposed collective action is now available to watch online. The session, held on 23 July 2024, was presented by LMC team members Dr Zoe Norris and Dr Rolan Schreiber, who provided an update on the GP contract imposition. Watch the webinar.
- 04 July 2024 – LMC Publishes Resource Pack: Information Regarding Future GP Collective Action
We have published a new resource pack consisting of summaries of the BMA GP Survival Toolkit. See the links on the GP Contract – Resources page.