This page was updated on 1 May to add the registration link.
The event will be considering next steps on the imposition of the GP Contract, following on from the recent Referendum of BMA members (see below for results) and the BMA formally entering into a dispute with the Government. It is open and free to all GPs, GP registrars, practice managers and nurses in every practice team across the London Region.
It will feature keynotes from Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer, Chair, GPC England and Dr Julius Parker, Deputy Chair. Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, Deputy CEO, Londonwide LMCs will present the latest evidence, guidance and support for your practice on safe working. Dr Michelle Drage our CEO will be chairing the day.
Registration and light refreshments are available at 12:30pm, the event starts 1:00pm and runs until 4:30pm. Details of Friends House can be found here.
Through the afternoon we will be exploring next steps on the imposed GP Contract and what happens next, what safe general practice looks like, and what partners and their teams can do without putting their businesses at risk of a remedial or termination breach notice. We will also share the latest evidence, guidance and support for London practices on safe working, in line with the characteristics of general practice/family medicine set out by the European Faculty of General Practice/Family Medicine (see below).
After London GPs and BMA members overwhelmingly voted to reject the Government and NHS England’s 2024/25 GP contract changes in March, with over 99% of those who voted rejecting the imposition of the GP Contract, GPC England executive members have been meeting with GPs and practice staff across the country to discuss next steps.
We need to work together to reduce un-resourced workload, improve working conditions for everyone working in general practice, and to help GPs and their teams to survive until they can thrive again, whilst upholding the characteristics of the discipline of general practice/family medicine set out by the European Faculty of General Practice/ Family Medicine. Namely that general practice:
- is normally the point of first medical contact within the health care system, providing open and unlimited access to its users, dealing with all health problems regardless of the age, sex, or any other characteristic of the person concerned,
- makes efficient use of health care resources through co-ordinating care, working with other professionals in the primary care setting, and by managing the interface with other specialities taking an advocacy role for the patient when needed,
- develops a person-centred approach, orientated to the individual, his/her family, and their community,
- promotes patient empowerment,
- has a unique consultation process, which establishes a relationship over time, through effective communication between doctor and patient,
- is responsible for the provision of longitudinal continuity of care as determined by the needs of the patient,
- has a specific decision making process determined by the prevalence and incidence of illness in the community,
- manages simultaneously both acute and chronic health problems of individual patients,
- manages illness which presents in an undifferentiated way at an early stage in its development, which may require urgent intervention,
- promotes health and wellbeing of patients and the ecosystems they live in both by appropriate and effective intervention,
- has a specific responsibility for the health of the community and environment, and
- deals with health problems in their physical, psychological, social, cultural, environmental and existential dimensions.
March 2024 Referendum results
A breakdown of GP and registrar votes for the BMA’s Referendum is as follows:
- 19,009 votes were cast.
- 18,854 (over 99%) voted ‘no’.
- 155 (0.8%) voted ‘yes’.
- Turnout was 61.2%.