The move would represent the first industrial action by GPs in 60 years
British Medical Association collective action could potentially mean GPs limit the number of patients they will see each day to 25 on whether they are in favour of staging collective action amid a row over the new contract for GP services in England.The result is expected anytime from Monday afternoon after the ballot closes at midday. If, as expected, BMA members support collective action GPs may limit the number of patients they will see each day to 25..
GPs have not staged action since 1964 when family doctors collectively handed in undated resignations to the Wilson government, leading to reform including the Family Doctor Charter of 1965. “The GP model is why the NHS has lasted as long as it has done and when you try and break the GP model, you break the gatekeeper, and when you break the gatekeeper, you break the NHS.On the industrial action, she said: “We’re not going on strike. This is collective, premeditated, disruptive action. It is industrial action, but the target isn’t patients. The target is NHS England, department of health.
If the ballot is successful then GPs have a suite of measures which they can deploy as part of the action, including disregarding “rationing” restrictions put in place by local NHS bodies. She said the union has some “cost-neutral solutions and suggestions that can make a big difference” to the working lives of GPs around England.
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