Safe Working in General Practice Guidance

General practice is in crisis. GPs are faced with increasingly unsafe workloads coupled with a rapidly diminishing and exhausted workforce. All LMCs has been encouraged to promote and support practice in their implementation of the BMA Safe Working Guidance.

Recently, GPCE has updated its safe working guidance, to support and enable practices to prioritise their delivery of safe, high-quality patient care, within the regulatory and professional expectations of the Primary Medical Services (GMS/PMS) Contract.

*The latest guidance and updated links will be available on the BMA website.

This handbook has been created to help GP practices make decisions that will allow them to best prioritise care.
It is suggested to follow the guidance by focusing on the delivery of General Medical Services, in line with the needs of your patients and practice, and deprioritising work and activities that fall outside your core contractual requirements.
It reflected the contractual changes imposed by NHS England in April 2024 and incorporates all the relevant changes for 2024/25.

Further guidance and tools can be found at here.