Collective Action and GP Contract – News and Updates

  • 27 January 2025 – Advice and Guidance
GPCE chair, Dr Katie Brammall Stainer, gives an update on developments with Advice and Guidance. You may also wish to read this statement by the GPCE, in response to the Government’s announcement of an £889m funding uplift for general practice in England for 2025/26, as set out in the letter from Wes Streeting MP on 20 December.
  • 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 – 95% 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.

  • 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.