Friday 28 November 2025

Friday 28 November 2025

Dear colleagues   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 . This is an unusual move, and it is in response to the GPC England officer team being firm in stating what we need for NHS general practice and with regards to the new requirements from October 1 st , including mitigations for safer management of online consultations that I know a l

Thursday 13 November 2025

Dear colleagues   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 just the lack of any safeguards to mitigate patient harm with recent online access changes, but also the broken government promise over a new GMS contract, with motions calling for GPC England to prepare for mass non-compliance, onward balloting of the profession, and collation of u

Friday 31 October 2025

Dear colleagues   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 (Monday –Friday 8am-6.30pm).GPC England agreed these contractual changes in February 2025 but with the important proviso that ‘necessary safeguards’ would be in place prior to the 1 October implementation date.Over the following months th

The confirmed minutes from the LMC meeting held on 1 September 2025 are available here.

Friday 17 October 2025

Dear colleagues   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 GP pathways are opened up to unlimited consultations promising patients’ better access, but providing no more GPs to increase appointment capacity; promising to ‘end the 8am scramble’ but providing no additional appointments, that we cannot safely accommodate this unmet need.

Friday 3 October 2025

Dear colleagues   GPC England in dispute over unsafe contract changes This week, on Wednesday 1 October, GPC England entered into dispute...

Longrigg Medical Centre are looking for a new salaried GP for 6 sessions per week, to start from November 2025, with the option of future...

Friday 19 September 2025

Friday 19 September 2025

Monday 8 September 2025

Dear colleagues   Upcoming contractual changes from 1 October We are acutely aware of the deep concern and growing frustration centred...

Chainbridge Medical Partnership Job Description - Practice Nurse   JOB TITLE: PRACTICE NURSE RESPONSIBLE TO: Clinically – Lead Practice...

The confirmed minutes from the LMC meeting held on 7 July 2025 are available here.

Friday 22 August 2025