Event details
GPC England Officers Webinar:
General Practice: Critically Endangered - Facing Extinction
Don’t miss this essential webinar for GMS contractors, which will also be of interest to all GPs and members of the practice team.
We will be reflecting on this winter, looking ahead to the 2026/27 contract later this spring, and scanning the horizon for what the future holds for our practices, and, existentially, our profession.
We will examine the context of this Government's 'talk' over shifting resources out of hospitals into communities, GP access and 'Neighbourhoods', but its 'walk' over protecting Emergency Departments, hospital budgets, and waiting list targets - at significant cost to our own patients' safety and practice team wellbeing.
What will happen next?
Are Government listening?
Will we need to act?
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Presenters
Katie Bramall-Stainer
Dr Katie Bramall was elected chair of GPC England in 2023 and chair of GPC UK in 2024, having previously chaired the UK Conference of LMCs from 2022. Having led GP Registrars nationally in 2007/8, she found herself elected annually to GPC ever since. She has overseen GMS negotiations since 2023 including a successful period of unprecedented collective action on behalf of practices, which saw over 2000 GPs join the BMA and which concluded with an additional total recurrent £1.6bn being invested into the core practice contract.
Katie is currently seconded to the BMA from her role as Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough LMC, a position she has held since 2019. Prior to this, Katie was medical director for NW London at Londonwide LMCs from 2016, and a GMS partner in Hertford for 7 years prior to that. She continues to practise locally in East Herts, where she lives with her two young sons.
Samira Anane
David Wrigley
Dr David Wrigley is Deputy Chair of the BMA GP Committee in England and has been a 6 session GP partner in Carnforth, north Lancashire for over 20 years – a heritage railway town near the Lake District. He is also vice chair of Morecambe Bay Local Medical Committee.
He has been a BMA activist for over 20 years and started out on the BMA GP Trainees Committee, becoming its chair and then had a regional seat on GPC for many years. He is also an elected member of BMA UK Council. From 2018-2022 he was one of the leaders at the BMA as deputy chair of BMA Council and worked closely with Dr Chaand Nagpaul and colleagues during the pandemic.
Dr Wrigley is a passionate supporter of NHS general practice and continues to push for increased funding and resources to improve patient care.