GPs vote for limiting daily appointment numbers in funding row
Members of the British Medical Association voted overwhelmingly for industrial action - 98 per cent voted to take one or more measures of collective action.
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00:00GPs in England have voted to cap the number of patients they see each day in a dispute
00:07over pay.
00:08Members of the British Medical Association voted overwhelmingly for industrial action.
00:12Ninety-eight percent voted to take one or more measures of collective action.
00:16The measures include limiting daily appointment numbers, reducing the number of tests surgeries
00:20take on behalf of hospitals, switching off NHS software which tries to cut prescribing
00:24costs and more.
00:26The action stems from a 1.9 per cent funding increase as part of the 2024-25 government
00:31contract which GPs aren't happy with.
00:34The BMA said GP services are struggling under overwhelming demand from a growing and ageing
00:39population and that the rise simply isn't enough to cover it.
00:43It comes just three days after Health Secretary Wes Streeting came to a compromise with striking
00:47junior doctors.
00:48Now, he's urged GPs to work with the government, writing in the Daily Telegraph he said the
00:52move will only punish patients.
00:55But what do you think?
00:56Are you in support of striking doctors or should patients come first?
00:59Have you struggled getting a doctor's appointment and are you concerned this might worsen the
01:03issue?