Take Action to Save General Practice

Watch GPs talking about the actions they’re taking.

The GPs Committee England met last week where we discussed the next steps of GP collective action as part of our ‘Protect your Patients and Protect your Practice‘ campaign and other upcoming issues affecting general practice.

We would encourage practices to continue to take action using our safe sustainable action menu. It is up to each practice to choose which actions to take, and whether to do one, or many. None of them represent a breach of your contract, but they will help you manage your workload and keep you and your patients safe. Your LMC will also provide you with additional advice, tailored to local arrangements.

Our GP practice survival toolkit provides for a menu of actions you can choose from, to support a safer delivery of services for patients and practice team:

Limit daily patient contacts per clinician to the UEMO recommended safe maximum of 25
Serving notice on voluntary services that plug local commissioning gaps
Cost up the value of providing locally commissioned services and serve notice on contracts which are undermining practices’ ability to sustain a service
Withdraw permission from secondary-use data sharing agreements
Freeze sign-up to new data sharing platforms
Stop engaging with the e-Referral Advice & Guidance pathway
Stop rationing referrals, investigations, and admissions
Switch off GP Connect Update Record Functionality
Ignore medicine optimisation software which diminishes patient choice in return for system savings never seen by GP practices
Defer your PCN declaration regarding online triage to 2025

We are urging the Government to engage constructively with us as soon as possible to determine short, medium, and long-term solutions to save General Practice.

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