BMA’s GP committee elects new chair

The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee in England has elected Katie Bramall-Stainer as its chair. The news came after the committee passed a vote of no confidence in its previous chair, Farah Jameel, as a means to elect a new chair.1Bramall-Stainer has been chief executive of Cambridgeshire Local Medical Committee and chair of the UK Conference of LMCs since 2019. Before this she was a medical director for North West London at Londonwide LMCs and a partner in a general practice in Hertfordshire.Three deputies were also elected to the committee on 3 August: David Wrigley, Julius Parker, and Samira Anane.Commenting on her election, Bramall-Stainer said that GPC England’s focus would be safeguarding the survival of general practice. “I will be writing to Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay in the coming weeks to ask to meet with them to discuss how we can better redistribute investment into the core GP contract, because…
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