GP leader: “If general practice is the bedrock of the NHS, then the NHS is collapsing”

Earlier this month GP partners in England voted overwhelmingly to take collective action in response to an imposed contract.123The BMJ spoke to Katie Bramall-Stainer, chair of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC) for England, to discuss their concerns.What has led GPs to vote for collective action?General practice in England has been in “dire straits for an extremely long time,” Bramall-Stainer says, with 1300 practices lost in the past decade and 2000 fewer full time equivalent GPs since 2010.4At the same time, the proportion of GP trainees who take up an NHS job within a year of completing their training has fallen from just under half to just over a third. “The profession itself is collapsing. And if general practice is the bedrock of the NHS, then the NHS is collapsing with it as well,” she warns.The 2024-25 contract imposed by NHS England under the previous government offered practices an uplift…
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