Friday 17 July 2026

Dear colleagues New GPC England Officer team We want to take this opportunity to introduce the new GPCE team. Many of you will already have seen the email and video from the new GPC England Chair, Dr Clare Bannon, that went out at the end of last week. Clare is now joined by Dr Manu Agrawal, Dr David Wrigley and Dr Shan Hussain as Deputy chairs of GPCE (see their information below). In our first week we have taken GPC England feedback on the way forward and view around coll

The confirmed minutes from the LMC meeting held on 1 June 2026 are available here.

Friday 3 July 2026

Dear colleagues Collective Action & Collective Thank You Three years ago, I set out with three simple demands of government: give us and our patients safety, stability and hope. We leave with much still to do, but with a profession that is more organised, more engaged and more informed than it has been for many years. In this week’s Talking General Practice podcast, I speak about my decision not to stand for re-election when our three-year term ends next week, and the highs

Friday 19 June 2026

Dear colleagues FP69s, list cleansing and the £40 million question Across England, practices are witnessing an unprecedented acceleration in patient list cleansing. What might appear to be a routine administrative exercise has rapidly become one of the most significant financial and operational challenges facing general practice this year. Over the past six months alone, GP practice lists have fallen by 344,000 patients. At current Global Sum rates, that represents more t

The confirmed minutes from the LMC meeting held on 20 April 2026 are available here.

Friday 5 June 2026

Dear colleagues New collective action for practices in June From 1 June, we are urging GP partnerships and practices across England to take part in a further collective action, in the face of the Government’s continued intransigence. We’re thankful to every practice that has taken part in collective action around data sharing agreements during May to stay safe and sustainable in the face of the 2026/27 imposed GP contract. We sincerely hoped that an escalation in action c

Friday 22 May 2026

Dear colleagues Collective action against new GP contract - update The GPs Committee for England (GPCE) met yesterday, 21 May, to discuss all the issues we currently face as well as the next steps of our collective action given the imposed contract we are working under since April 2026. The next action, from 1 June is where we ask you to remove or ignore any non-contractual medicines optimisation software, and amend your choices of acute prescriptions which may fall outsi

Friday 8 May 2026

Dear colleagues Collective action against new GP contract As of 1 May, we are urging GP partners and practices to take part in collective action, given Government’s insufficient assurances regarding our concerns over the 2026/27 GP contract. Practices are working in crisis-level environments, where every day feels ‘exceptional’ in terms of unlimited demand outstripping available workforce capacity. Being placed in a position where delivering an imposed contract is an impo

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The confirmed minutes from the LMC meeting held on 2 March 2026 are available here.

Friday 17 April 2026

Dear colleagues GPC England and the profession reject the recently imposed GP contract GPC England met recently and received news that GP members across the country have overwhelmingly voted to reject the contract with 99% saying no to the 2026/27 GP contract that the Government announced and imposed last month. Urgent bilateral negotiations with Government are now underway and are dependent on securing a commitment that contractual proposals around changes to ‘advice and

Dear colleagues Update from GPC England and contract referendum results Huge heartfelt thanks to all of you who voted in the referendum and spread the word. We heard you loud and clear: 98.9% of you voted NO, opting to reject the Government’s imposed changes to the 2026/27 contract Read the press release > GPCE (GPs committee England) met last Thursday following the close of the referendum. In response to the ballot outcome, GPCE members considered the next steps follow

Dear colleagues GP CONTRACT REFERENDUM OPEN NOW Before you do anything else, please stop and check your inbox for your voting link by searching for bma@cesvotes.com . An email has been sent to all eligible members today and it’s crucial we hear from you. Deadline to vote is Wednesday noon 25 th March 2026. Background: GPC England rejected the Government’s 26/27 GP contract changes and opened a referendum for GPs and GP registrars . This is our opportunity to send a