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14th August 2024

Are your pension records up to date?


The BMA’s Pensions Committee have launched a campaign encouraging you to take action to make sure that your pension records are accurate and up to date, so you can make informed decisions about your pension savings, retirement plans and the McCloud remedy.  

14th August 2024

GP pressures - workforce and appointment data


The latest workforce data showed that the NHS had the equivalent of 27,670 fully qualified full-time GPs in June 2024.

13th August 2024

Crowdstrike outage


Following the events of Friday 19 July that saw critical digital services, including in general practice, across the country impacted by the outage, GPC sought and received assurances from the ICO and NHS England that GPs would not be required to report the availability breach to the ICO created by the outage on an individual basis.

13th August 2024

PCN Pilots - S96 guidance


GPCE has sought advice on the Section 96 Agreement that is being sent out to practices to sign up to participation in the PCN Test Pilots.  This sets out a number of concerns with the proposed Agreement raised following legal consultation.

9th August 2024

GPC England’s vision to rebuild general practice


The BMA have published our Vision for General Practice which outlines key short, medium and longer term asks of the new Government framed around safety now, stability for next year’s contract and longer-term hope in negotiating a new substantive contract for general practice in England. 

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