Wales GP contract negotiations break down

Contract negotiations between the Welsh government, NHS Wales, and BMA Cymru Wales’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC Wales) have ended without resolution, the BMA has said.A letter sent to GPs in Wales1 by the GPC Wales chair, Gareth Oelmann, said that with “no credible financial offer” on the table, prolonging the negotiation process for the 2023-24 general medical services contract would be “futile.”He wrote, “The financial settlement on offer from the Welsh Government did not match our reasonable expectation of an uplift to the contract value that would help to counter the damaging impact of soaring inflation on practice costs and staffing expenses. Unless there are any new and significant proposals brought to the table by the Welsh Government, we do not foresee any further discussions on this year’s contract.”BMA Cymru Wales is running a Save Our Surgeries campaign, which asks the Welsh government to commit to a rescue package for…
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