GPC
Report
For East and West Sussex
LMCs
Dr Russell Brown
15 June 2017
The GPC met today. This was a GPC England meeting, the last of
the current Bma year, with the Annual Representatives meeting later this month.
Our current chair of GPC, Chaand Nagpaul, will be moving to take up the
position of BMA Chair of Council. This
means that both GPCE and GPCUK will need new chair electing in July at the next
GPCUK meeting. At the moment I am unable
to tell you who the candidates actually are as they can't technically throw
their hats into the ring until nearer the time.
I have a couple of ideas who might though. I suspect we will end up with
at least one new member of the executive team.
Much of
the subject matter today is confidential but as usual I will tell you what I
can. For a change I am going to try writing my report in real time, during the
meeting. Apologies in advance for any
spelling or grammatical errors.
Chairman's
report
Chaand
gave a summary of events during his tenure, in particular the changes from last
year and in particular the success of not allowing changes to our core hours.
He also outlined the difficulties we are facing. Quality First has been a success, with an
emphasis on supporting Gps in resisting inappropriate demands on their time.
Indemnity
With
recent changes in the law about the discount rate applied to compensation
awards, it is likely that there will be a significant change in MDO subscription
costs for GPs. Discussions regarding solutions are ongoing with the MDOs and
representatives of the Department of Health who are well aware of the
potentially destabilising and even catastrophic effects this issue may have on
general practice in England.
UEMO
Resolutions
from the 2017 Conference of LMCs
Colleagues
will have seen the Conference News published by the BMA, some
may even have read it if unable to sleep. There was lengthy discussion about
several of the resolutions with breakout groups to look at the best way to
implement them. It is conceivable that
the views may change depending on the election on a new chairperson for
GPC. Effort is being put into having a
proactive narrative, telling others what we think is needed rather than simply
delineating the problems.
The
official GPC news can be found soon at the usual bit of the BMA website. This often includes information that is said
to be confidential in the meetings but nevertheless works its way into the
documents!
The next
GPC meeting is in July, a GPCUK meeting.
I hope you have found this report helpful. Please feedback so that I can ensure my
reports are useful.
Dr
Russell Brown
