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Dr Katie Bramall
@drkatie.bsky.social
@doctor_katie on X

Chair @BMA_GP England & UK
Seconded from CEO at Cambs LMC
GP Hailey View Surgery
Views my own
RT ≠ endorsement

Retired quizzer; devoted mother; loves a good pair of slippers; The Divine Comedy; bleak humour & synthpop bangerz.
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It saddens us to confirm that the profession entered dispute with the Government on 1 October 2025 over its broken promises relating to GP contract renewal and investment and the 2025/26 GP contract c...
bma.org.uk
March 23, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Thanks to @bmj.com & & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social for having me on the podcast: bit.ly/4t1BjVR

Our final new contract webinar is Weds lunchtime 12-1.30 Head to BMA.org.uk/GPcontract to register & don’t forget to vote in the GP referendum - it’s your decision re: the 26/27 contract
Campaigning on the future of General Practice
It saddens us to confirm that the profession entered dispute with the Government on 1 October 2025 over its broken promises relating to GP contract renewal and investment and the 2025/26 GP contract c...
BMA.org.uk
March 13, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Podcasts!

This week:
GP Online’s Talking General Practice: open.spotify.com/episode/6jwi...

Today:
eGPlearning with Andy & Gandhi www.youtube.com/live/-UMwjgk...

Next week:
BMJ with Kamran Abbasi

Week after:
Medics Money with AISMA’s Andy Pow and Dr Tommy Perkins
Dr Katie Bramall on why the new GP contract is unsafe and how GPs can fight back
open.spotify.com
March 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
Join Andy and @drgandalf.bsky.social of eGPlearning AND GPCE chair Dr @drkatie.bsky.social to hear how the GP contract will affect you in primary care and what you can do about it.

Live from 11am Sat 7th March here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UMw...
March 6, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
This sums up the new ‘imposed’ GP contract
@drkatie.bsky.social clearly tells @gponline.bsky.social
what the problems are

I will add it’s less than £1.50 per patient per year extra funding

GP practice need £40-£50 to return to 2016 funding
March 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
As ever, thanks to Emma for having me on the podcast

Listen also on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6jwid6…

Then go and VOTE in the referendum

@BMA_GP
March 5, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c

Now it's over to users!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
February 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
Our practice gets a minimum average of 44 online queries an hour on a Monday. 31 an hour the rest of the week We don’t have the resourcing to cope with this unless we cancel all other work. In the past two weeks we have had two sick babies put through on admin form. Despite our website saying don’t
According to this data

💥5,967 (over 96%) of practices in England have at least one online consultation system
 
💥5.1 million patient online submissions occurred in August

💥3.5 million clinical, the rest admin

(For context every A&E nationwide offers 67,000/day)

3/x
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
GPs have done all they can to keep patients safe and provide as much as possible
1.4million people will consult today
Compare this with 67,000 in A&E

The reason for the concerns is we have a capacity problem & a funding crisis
The 8 am rush (it’s bad) will be replaced by the GP waiting list (worse)
If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital

We are the science museum!

➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….

1/x
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital

We are the science museum!

➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….

1/x
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Equally true:

@TheBMA warns Secretary of State the NHS will die, should Labour lose the next election, because they refused to work with Drs & imposed unevidenced top-down reforms & dangerous contracts risking patient safety…

theguardian.com/society/2025/s…

@BMA_GP @rcgp @TheDA_UK
https://theguardian.com/society/2025/s…
September 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Great article by James here: on the back of @wesstreeting’s letter to GPs this week: (in thread)

www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
The results are in: GPs do an amazing job
Despite the severe pressures family doctors are under they have seen 30 million patients in one month alone, finds survey
www.bma.org.uk
August 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
Newsnight last night. I had more to say but it wasn't easy.
We already have Neighbourhood health centres - they are called GP surgeries. Invest in GP - we know it works if funded properly
youtu.be/mDEDXFQfqIk?...
Helen Salisbury Newsnight July 2025
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This:
Already over 6000 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England

GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need
Still 31m appts/month

Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest with less funding & quicker
July 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
For GPs, focus is always on maintaining patient trust in how their confidential data is handled
 
We were not aware that GP data, collected for Covid-19 research, was being used to train an AI model, “Foresight”….
May 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
NEW REPORT: How does patient satisfaction with general practice vary in England? And what do patients value in their practice?

We find that patients prefer:
- More GP partners
- More GP appts
- More F2F appts
- Smaller list sizes

Other findings👇

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
General practice across England | Institute for Government
What does patient satisfaction across England tell us about GPs surgeries' performance?
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
April 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases
- In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5
- TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe
- smallpox killed 80% of infected children
theconversation.com/infectious-d...
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
@drkatie.bsky.social was great on R4 Today (7.50 if you missed it)
We want not just to stop practices closing but to improve the service they can offer to patients (timely access to a GP they know) and this will cost more than is currently on the table - but it's a start.
Hopeful noises coming out of GP/Govt contract negotiations - but there's a lot more still to do. Glad continuity of care is finally a buzzword (buzzphrase?)
Some concerns that all the money so far announced might be swallowed up by ⬆️costs (NICs, NMW etc). Huge gratitude to KBS @the-bma.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
A great explainer from GPCE chair @drkatie.bsky.social on exactly what is at stake with the upcoming negotiations for the new General Practice contract.

From 11:24 on Matt Frei's LBC show today 👇

www.globalplayer.com/live/lbc/lon...
LBC London - Listen Live | Global Player
Leading Britain's Conversation. Access your favourite LBC shows now!
www.globalplayer.com
December 21, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
“Replacing the Carr-Hill formula with a needs-based formula is the best and most sustainable way to make general practice funding more equitable.” @becksfisher.bsky.social @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @rcgp.bsky.social @drkatie.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation.

Our briefing, proposes replacing Carr-Hill with a modern, needs-based formula.
Fairer funding for general practice in England: what’s the problem, why is it so hard to fix, and what should the government do?
General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. This briefing, produced…
buff.ly
December 15, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
Can’t get an appt with a GP?

Yet there are 1000s of GPs out of work or struggling to find work
NHS England have cut the equivalent of 2 full-time GPs in funding from an average practice, whilst funding ‘additional’ roles via ARRS

£2bn cut in real term

Not additional then🤷🏻‍♂️ youtu.be/tI69wqP1_3g?...
Over 80% of locum GPs in England are struggling to find work
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 16, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Reposted by Dr Katie Bramall
If you've been wondering where I went: my team in Oxford (60 of us!) build beautiful tools for NHS data. We help researchers work on the whole nation's GP records while protecting - provably - everyone's privacy. It's big potatoes!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
OpenSAFELY in a nutshell
YouTube video by Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:20 PM