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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
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
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
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
Live from 11am Sat 7th March here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UMw...
Live from 11am Sat 7th March here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UMw...
@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
@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
Listen also on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6jwid6…
Then go and VOTE in the referendum
@BMA_GP
Listen also on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6jwid6…
Then go and VOTE in the referendum
@BMA_GP
Now it's over to users!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
Now it's over to users!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
💥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
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)
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
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)
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
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
@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
@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
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We already have Neighbourhood health centres - they are called GP surgeries. Invest in GP - we know it works if funded properly
youtu.be/mDEDXFQfqIk?...
We already have Neighbourhood health centres - they are called GP surgeries. Invest in GP - we know it works if funded properly
youtu.be/mDEDXFQfqIk?...
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
We were not aware that GP data, collected for Covid-19 research, was being used to train an AI model, “Foresight”….
We were not aware that GP data, collected for Covid-19 research, was being used to train an AI model, “Foresight”….
We find that patients prefer:
- More GP partners
- More GP appts
- More F2F appts
- Smaller list sizes
Other findings👇
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
We find that patients prefer:
- More GP partners
- More GP appts
- More F2F appts
- Smaller list sizes
Other findings👇
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
- 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...
- 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...
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.
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
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.
From 11:24 on Matt Frei's LBC show today 👇
www.globalplayer.com/live/lbc/lon...
From 11:24 on Matt Frei's LBC show today 👇
www.globalplayer.com/live/lbc/lon...
Our briefing, proposes replacing Carr-Hill with a modern, needs-based formula.
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?...
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?...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...