English LMCs: Core hours, patient records, and other key motions

Core GP hoursThe BMA must negotiate for the new GP contract to reduce core working hours to 9 00 am to 17 00 pm, with practices able to start earlier or finish later on certain days, as per extended hours, in order to meet local need and practice ability to staff this. The motion, passed at the England LMCs conference on 24 November, said current core hours (8 00 am to 18 30 pm, 52.5 hours a week) are longer than for most full time jobs. GPs said this indirectly discriminates against GPs with childcare duties, which mostly affects female GPs because of the “still-patriarchal nature of English society.”Hours not sessionsAnother motion demanded that any new BMA model contracts define GP working schedules in terms of hours rather than sessions, as referring to GPs as full time, part time, or full time equivalent in terms of numbers of sessions worked…
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