GP contract: Practices at risk of closure unless 1.9% offer is improved, warns BMA – GWC Mag

Many general practices will be at risk of closing down or face “awful choices” over staff redundancies and the services they provide unless the government improves its contractual offer to the profession, the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee for England has warned.

The committee said the offer of a 1.9% uplift to core general medical services (GMS) funding provided nowhere near what is needed to prevent practices from reducing services or closing down altogether. The 2024-25 offer will do little to bring hope, stability, or safety to the profession and will worsen patients’ access even further, it added. …