GPC to decide on mass resignation, Pulse reports

The General Practitioners Committee (GPC) is set to inform Local Medical Committees (LMCs) on whether or not to ballot the profession on mass resignations, Pulse has said.

The news comes after the ballot was announced at the LMC’s annual conference in May, after it declared it did not accept that the GP Forward View was 'an adequate response to the crisis in general practice', and 'considers it to be sufficient grounds for a trade dispute'.

The committee has called on NHS England to put in place a number of measures to ease the crisis in general practice, including: setting a maximum limit on the number of patients a GP can see in a day;
setting out a list of services not covered in core GMS which are optional tasks for practices and subject to national pricing benchmarks; ending the duplication of CQC and NHS Performers list registration; agreeing a nationally defined contract for GPs employed by other providers; introducing 15-minute consultations; and creating a new care homes DES.

Dr Richard Vautrey, GPC deputy chair, said: “The timeframe for the motion is imminent. It is around 20 August. It has obviously been discussed quite significantly within the GPC, and we have had a lot of engagement with NHS England since the conference itself.

“We are putting together a statement which we will be issuing shortly, relating to all these issues.”