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Ministers agree to negotiate new long term contract for GPs in England
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r571 (Published 20 March 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r571
- Gareth Iacobucci
- The BMJ
The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee for England (GPCE) has accepted contract changes for 2025-26 after the government formally agreed to its request to negotiate a completely new national contract by 2028.
Last month,1 GPCE agreed “in principle” to an £889m funding uplift to GPs’ contracts for 2025-26, on the condition that the government committed to negotiating a completely new long term deal within the current parliament.
In a speech to GPs at the …
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