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Join Andy and Gandhi as they cover the impact of the budget, the BMA being out of GP negotiations and other plans for GPs by the DAUK

Agenda
Wes Letter 27/11/25
BMA lose exclusive negotiating role in GP contract
Budget 25 - impact for GP?
DAUK Your GP here for you campaign

BMA set to lose exclusive GP contract negotiating role in England
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breaking-news/bma-set-to-lose-exclusive-gp-contract-negotiating-role-in-england/ 


Not our role to negotiate GP contract’, says RCGP
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/contract/not-our-role-to-negotiate-gp-contract-says-rcgp/ 

NHSE primary care director Dr Amanda Doyle: Patients deserve consistent online access - by Amanda Doyle
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/2025-26-contract/nhse-primary-care-director-dr-amanda-doyle-patients-deserve-consistent-online-access/ 

Budget 2025

Context
Long wait
Lots of leaks and kite flying
Not least OBR leak on the day

https://www.nhsconfed.org/publications/autumn-budget-2025#:~:text=The%20overall%20budget%20for%20health,in%20the%20OBR's%20inflation%20projection. 

Wimslow practice video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNQN8VJLVI 

Medics Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KEiv6cR8U 

Doctors demand new GP contract and £40-per-patient funding uplift
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/contract/doctors-demand-new-gp-contract-and-40-per-patient-funding-uplift/

Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has demanded that the Government increase core GP funding per patient by £40 a year as part of a new ‘patient-centred’ GP contract. 


The group’s ‘Your GP, here for you’ campaign proposes funding these changes by increasing per-patient funding by £40 a year to £209 – a move it says would bring the figure in line with inflation over the last decade. 


Advocate for a patient centred GP contract

https://dauk.org/our-call-for-new-patient-centred-gp-contract/ 



Wes Letter 27/11/25

Dear Colleagures… To GPs and bypassing the GPC

Firstly, I want to say a heartfelt thank you to you and your teams

Patient satisfaction with general practice is improving, with 73.9% reporting a good overall experience, up from 67.4% in July 2024. This is a significant achievement, and the credit is all yours.

Background to previous negotiation milestones with labour …
We struck the first contract deal with the BMA GPCE in 4 years last year, backed by £1.1billion in 2025/26 (an 8.9% cash uplift), the biggest in over a decade.
Within months of entering government, we invested an additional £82 million into the ARRS scheme and removed red tape to allow you to recruit over 2,500 extra GPs. I am now actively looking at ways I can introduce further flexibilities into the scheme to continue boosting GP employment.
To ensure general practice is rewarded for the additional work you take on through advice and guidance, we have introduced a financial incentive backed by additional funding.

GPs at forefront of developing INTs

Amidst all this brilliant work, you will be aware that the BMA GPCE has launched a formal dispute with the government over the 1st October online access contract changes which they agreed to, and which the vast majority of practices have now adopted.

Accuses KBS of unprofessional behviour regarding speech at LMC conference

I sincerely hope the BMA GPCE will choose to de-escalate their dispute.

I will shortly be writing to the BMA GPCE and a range of general practice stakeholders to begin consultation for the 2026/27 GMS contract, ensuring we reflect the diversity of views amongst the profession and patients as we establish our next steps to get g