Patients face months of misery after GPs yesterday launched industrial action that will see some slash available appointments by half.
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As part of the action, the BMA will encourage surgeries to choose from a list of ten actions, with practices able to choose how many they implement and when. It is expected to be the most significant collective action by family doctors in 60 years, having been backed by two in three of the BMA’s GPs.Advertisement As many as three million GP appointments a month could disappear if all family doctors kowtow to the BMA demands to slash numbers to just 25 a day. While the daily average is 37, some doctors currently do 50.
‘For too long, we’ve been unable to provide the care we want to. We are witnessing general practice being broken. The BMA said the new GP contract, which will see services given a 1.9 per cent funding increase for 2024/25, means many surgeries will struggle to stay financially viable.It comes as the Government today announced it had added GPs to the additional roles reimbursement scheme , in the hope practices will be able to hire 1,000 more doctors this year.
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