It's #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay and a VERY exciting day for The BMA

From today, we are very proud to be bringing our First Point of Contact (FPC) service IN HOUSE, meaning it will now be managed and staffed by BMA advisers. 🧵

It is not correct to say, as this article does, that junior doctors are the only staff group in dispute with the Government.

SAS doctors and GPs are both still in dispute.

What is the cost when a salaried GP with 6 years' experience moves abroad?
 
If they worked at a rural practice it may struggle to recruit, relying on locum cover for up to 3 months (£735/day). When recruited, the new GP would take time to get up to speed bma.org.uk/attrition-costs

Derry GP and BMA Northern Ireland council chair Tom Black has started seeing private patients out of hours in order to save his practice from closure.

He tells Jennifer Trueland about the practice's surival plan [1/4]:
bma.org.uk/news-and-opini…

In Scotland, 100 Deep End GP Scotland surgeries are based in the most deprived communities. The project calls for more resources in a bid to redress the Inverse Care Law. In the second of a two-part series, Peter Blackburn reports from the front line of the Deep End, shadowing David Blane

The financial cost to the NHS of doctors leaving the workforce is staggering.
 
At least £1.6 billion, according to our new research.
 
Let’s take a look at some examples 🧵👇
bma.org.uk/attrition-costs

The Prime Minister should focus on helping patients get the care they need, rather than hostile rhetoric on 'sicknote culture'.

Read the full response from Katie Bramall-Stainer to plans announced today. bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

Our jam-packed April edition has a broad range of features - from a look at restrictive visa rules and the latest The BMA industrial action to a GP's innovative bid to keep their practice going and an interview with a TV medical adviser.

Read it here:
bma.org.uk/news-and-opini…

Yesterday we wrote to NHS England to make clear our dispute.

Today we write to ICBs, & warn to plan for system consequences.

Listen to the 99.2% of GPs who said “No” in our #GPreferendum
Enough is enough.

ICBs, talk to your LMCs. Listen to what they have to say.

General Practice

**BREAKING** - GP pushback part 2
Here’s a letter General Practice has sent to the leaders of each of the 42 ICBs across England advising them to add our imminent action & crisis to their risk registers. If we revert to core general practice care it will have a huge impact on the system

A rare occurrence where NHS England board has any focus on GP services. Amanda Pritchard - you can & must do better on behalf of our 6,400 practices. 👇

Today I’m writing to amanda doyle to outline that we are now in dispute

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Today we have urged Andrea Leadsom MP to ask NHS England to continue providing the New to Practice Fellowship Scheme for GP registrars across England.

Read the letter:

Here’s a snapshot of just 20 letters rec’d this afternoon from hospital & other NHS colleagues

Half need us to do something eg refer, order investigations, send info back

It’s not just GP time, but admin & secretarial too - when 95% staff are in hospitals