Wales GP contract negotiations break down – GWC Mag

Contract negotiations between the Welsh government, NHS Wales, and BMA Cymru Wales’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC Wales) have ended without resolution, the BMA has said.

A letter sent to GPs in Wales1 by the GPC Wales chair, Gareth Oelmann, said that with “no credible financial offer” on the table, prolonging the negotiation process for the 2023-24 general medical services contract would be “futile.”

He wrote, “The financial settlement on offer from the Welsh Government did not match our reasonable expectation of an uplift to the contract value that would help to counter the damaging …