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Friday 18 September 2026

Dear colleagues Government commits to bilateral talks Our priority since July has been to secure written confirmation from the Government to agree to re-enter formal bilateral negotiations with us. We set a deadline for this, coinciding with a meeting of GPC England (GPCE) yesterday, 17 September. The GPCE officer team has had a positive initial contact with ministers and civil servants, and I am pleased to say the Government has now agreed to return to formal bilatera

The confirmed minutes from the LMC meeting held on 6 July 2026 are available here.

Friday 4 September 2026

Dear colleagues GP collective action and escalation plan GP collective action continues this September. Following our steady monthly additions, we have decided to maintain all existing actions this month rather than escalating further. This decision creates the opportunity for the newly elected GPC England officer team to build on positive initial discussions with Amanda Doyle, National Director for Primary Care and Community Services (NHSE). Our priority is to secure wr

Please see attached updated list (July 2026) of the ICB approved Right to Choose Providers for ADHD.

Friday 21 August 2026

Dear colleagues NHSE Neighbourhood consultation As you may be aware, NHS England is currently running a consultation on contractual options for the proposed Multi and Single Neighbourhood Provider models. Whilst the BMA will be submitting a response shortly, we have produced guidance for practices and LMCs to help them input into the consultation, summarising the options outlined in the consultation and outlining key issues that they may wish to consider. Read more abo

Thursday 6 August 2026

Dear colleagues New collective action for practices for August Our collective action continues in August. Alongside the existing actions, we are now asking practices to help bring patients on board by explaining the pressures facing general practice, why change is needed and how they can support their local GP practice. We’re sending practices a set of posters by post, along with a range of digital materials that you can download and share, including leaflets that you'll

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

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

Friday 6 March 2026

Dear colleagues GP contract imposition and referendum GPC England met on 26 February and voted to reject the Government’s 2026/27 GMS contract and to open a contract referendum of the profession on the imposed contract changes, which were announced on Tuesday last week . It is vital you vote in the referendum. To do so, you must be a BMA member. GP and GP registrar members should have received an email from Civica, inviting you to vote. You’ll be asked if you accept th

The confirmed minutes from the LMC meeting held on 12 January 2026 are available here.

Friday 20 February 2026

Friday 20 February 2026

Dear colleagues General Practice: Critically Endangered, Facing Extinction The Government has indicated they will share their final positions on the 2026/27 GP contract changes in England next week and we await the details of this. It is vital they recognise the critical situation we face with increasing workloads, stretched finances and an exhausted workforce. In the meantime the BMA has just published a 30-minute podcast where the GPC England Chair, Dr Katie Bramall, and

Friday 6 February 2026

Dear colleagues General Practice: Critically Endangered - Facing Extinction Many thanks to those of you who logged in to last week’s webinars. It was great to connect with over a thousand GPs joining and contributing to where we are now, and the future direction of travel ahead of coming back to you with more information next month regarding the 2026/27 contract. We expect to receive the final position from government at the end of the month. GPC England will also then meet

Gateshead and South Tyneside LMC have developed this guidance to clarify responsibility for patients moving into care homes across local practice boundaries. It addresses a common area of uncertainty for practices and care homes. The guidance has been developed in collaboration with local commissioners, community services and GST LMC, and is intended to support consistent, safe and appropriate patient care.

Wednesday 21 January 2026

Dear colleagues General Practice: Critically Endangered - Facing Extinction Last Thursday, GPC England met at BMA House for the first meeting of 2026; this week marked ‘Blue Monday’ - the lowest emotional point of the winter. You won’t be alone in struggling to find the joy in general practice currently, especially given relentless online demand and respiratory illnesses which have taken their toll on practices and GPs nationwide. We are seeing some of our busiest days,

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

Friday 19 December 2025

Dear colleague, As 2025 draws to a close we bring you the last newsletter of the year, updating you on what’s been happening over the past few weeks and looking forward to what the new year may bring. The approach from Government earlier this month was followed this week by our attendance at the Department of Health, where we met with DHSC, NHSE and Number 10 officials to discuss the 2026/27 GP contract proposals. We spent a significant period of time feeding back on thei

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