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Pulse editor Sofia Lind reflects on why Dr Clare Bannon believes GPs need a ‘plan B’ – and what that could mean for the future of general practice Ahead of Dr Clare Bannon taking over the chair at GPC England yesterday, she sat down with our deputy news editor to outline her plans for her

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Pulse’s Anna Colivicchi sat down with Dr Clare Bannon, the new chair of the BMA’s GP Committee in England, on her very first day of the job to discuss her plans for the term, including where the profession goes with collective action now, how ‘plan B’ will progress, how the partnership model will work with

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Exclusive The new BMA GP Committee chair will prioritise seeking a ‘significant’ GP funding uplift from the Government before going after wholesale GMS contract reform. Former health secretary Wes Streeting had formally committed to renegotiating a ‘completely new’ national GP contract, but the previous GPC chair recently said that the promised wholesale GMS contract negotiation...

NHS England has pledged that money saved through its ongoing GP list-cleansing exercise – which has already removed hundreds of thousands of patients – will ‘remain within general practice services’. The commissioner said its analysis indicates there are ‘significantly more patients’ recorded on GP registration lists than would be expected based on the Office for

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Three GP partners have been elected as the new deputy chairs of the BMA’s GP committee, the union has announced. The committee has elected Dr David Wrigley, Dr Shan Hussain and Dr Manu Agrawal as the new officers of GPC England. It follows the election of Dr Clare Bannon, a GP partner in Barnsley and former deputy

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