DAUK’s Dr Alison George told national TV viewers the agreed 2025\/26 contract would \u2018bring general practice back from the brink\u2019.\r\n\r\nDr George was among members of our GP committee speaking in the media talking about the contract.\r\n\r\nMembers have been interviewed on TV, radio, and for online publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr George, a GP based in Newcastle, told ITV Lunchtime News<\/a> it was \u2018a positive announcement\u2019.\r\n\r\nShe said: \u201cIt will go some way towards repairing the damage that has been done to general practice over the past 14 or 15 years with the chronic underfunding and diktats from the Department of Health and NHS England.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere is still someway to go. overall I think it is a positive announcement. It means we have space to move things forward and bring general practice back from the brink.\u201d\r\n\r\nDr Lizzie Toberty, our GP lead, who is also based in Newcastle, was interviewed on national radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She told listeners to LBC\u2019s Tom Swarbrick at Drive: \u201cFor many years, we\u2019ve not seen an uplift in funding for general practice.\r\n\r\n“Despite increases in the cost of living, increases in the amount of funding needed to pay staff, there hasn\u2019t been an increase in the funding provided.\r\n\r\n\u201cAnd yet we\u2019ve seen our population grow.\r\n\r\n\u201cGeneral practice as a whole has been struggling to provide what our patients have needed.\r\n\r\n\u201cI think (the agreement) provides a glimmer of hope for GPs and patients alike.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s the first day a contract has been agreed between our union and the government over the last four years which shows that both sides are working together to make things better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit our Instagram page<\/a> to listen to Dr Toberty speaking on LBC.\r\n\r\nDr Steve Taylor, our GP spokesperson and a GP based in Manchester, spoke to BBC Online<\/a>\r\n\r\nDr Taylor said he feared much of the extra money will go towards national insurance contributions, staff, and running costs.\r\n\r\nHe said: \u201cThe new GP contract goes a small way to fix some of the significant issues for GP practices, in that it prevents further declines in funding with a small percentage increase.”\r\n\r\nDr Taylor was also quoted in GP Online<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe said: \u201c’While there has been an acknowledgment of the need to invest in community services, a much larger investment will be needed to reverse the decline and build more capacity for the future. We look forward to seeing greater emphasis placed on GP provision in the future years.\u201d\r\n\r\nGPC England announced on Friday it had voted to accept the proposed contract. It includes an overall funding uplift of \u00a3969m for 2025\/26, contingent on full renegotiation of the national contract within this parliament. Read the full headlines<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to our crowd funder<\/a> or by becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DAUK’s Dr Alison George told national TV viewers the agreed 2025\/26 contract would \u2018bring general practice back from the brink\u2019. Dr George was among members…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59],"tags":[690,658,22,304,591,23],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","tag-dr-alison-george","tag-dr-lizzie-toberty","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-committee","tag-gp-contract","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}General practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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