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As many of us know its very very hard to see a GP , services are being cut . GP`s find it difficult if not impossible to recruit partners in many places
Hence the latest action
The BMA will soon ballot GP partners on ‘collective action’ following a successful vote at the GP Committee England (GPCE) meeting today.
GPCE members have voted through a motion to proceed with a ‘non-statutory ballot’, which means any action taken by GP partners will ‘not involve contract breaches’.
The BMA has suggested that instead GP partners could limit appointments to the union’s ‘safe working maximum’ of 25, or reject workload dump by stopping or reducing ‘work that they’re not formally contracted to do’.
The committee indicated that this is a ‘first phase’ of action, and that ‘further escalation’ beyond a non-statutory ballot can be stopped if the Government agrees to make ‘contractual improvements’ in 2024/25 and restore GP funding to 2018/19 levels.
According to the union, the core funding uplift of ‘just 1.9%’ could force some surgeries to ‘shut their doors for good before autumn 2024’, highlighting that some practices have already taken the decision to close since April.
‘Despite these warnings, the Government has so far failed to make any improvements to the contract, prompting the committee to launch a ballot on collective action,’ the BMA said.
Primary care minister Andrea Leadsom has recently sought to remind GPs that the 1.9% is still ‘pending’ the Government’s response to the upcoming DDRB recommendation on GP pay.
But the the GPCE said today that there is ‘little faith’ among GPs that this ‘will be enough’ or that it will be timely enough to stop closures.
Depending on the result of the ballot, which will run online from 17 June to 29 July, GP partners may be directed to stop fit notes, prescriptions or investigations ‘which should have taken place in the hospital setting’.
If there is a majority vote, GPs will be able to take collective action such as this ‘immediately’.
Hence the latest action
The BMA will soon ballot GP partners on ‘collective action’ following a successful vote at the GP Committee England (GPCE) meeting today.
GPCE members have voted through a motion to proceed with a ‘non-statutory ballot’, which means any action taken by GP partners will ‘not involve contract breaches’.
The BMA has suggested that instead GP partners could limit appointments to the union’s ‘safe working maximum’ of 25, or reject workload dump by stopping or reducing ‘work that they’re not formally contracted to do’.
The committee indicated that this is a ‘first phase’ of action, and that ‘further escalation’ beyond a non-statutory ballot can be stopped if the Government agrees to make ‘contractual improvements’ in 2024/25 and restore GP funding to 2018/19 levels.
According to the union, the core funding uplift of ‘just 1.9%’ could force some surgeries to ‘shut their doors for good before autumn 2024’, highlighting that some practices have already taken the decision to close since April.
‘Despite these warnings, the Government has so far failed to make any improvements to the contract, prompting the committee to launch a ballot on collective action,’ the BMA said.
Primary care minister Andrea Leadsom has recently sought to remind GPs that the 1.9% is still ‘pending’ the Government’s response to the upcoming DDRB recommendation on GP pay.
But the the GPCE said today that there is ‘little faith’ among GPs that this ‘will be enough’ or that it will be timely enough to stop closures.
Depending on the result of the ballot, which will run online from 17 June to 29 July, GP partners may be directed to stop fit notes, prescriptions or investigations ‘which should have taken place in the hospital setting’.
If there is a majority vote, GPs will be able to take collective action such as this ‘immediately’.
