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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
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
Samira Anane
Dr Samira Anane works as a GP in Manchester and was elected as the Deputy Chair of the BMA GP Committee of England in August 2023. Samira was previously Chair of the GP Trainees committee and has co-chaired the Sessional Committee. In 2024 Samira was responsible for producing the Safe Working Handbook and successfully negotiated the GP trainee work schedules with NHS Employers in 2016. She is Chair of Manchester LMC and Manchester GP board and is a PCN CD, having previously worked as a CCG Neighbourhood and GP Federation workforce lead. Her longstanding interests include but are not limited to training, workforce, and health policy. She recently completed an NIHR in Practice Fellowship and MPH at the University of Manchester, with her dissertation focusing on ‘How the General Medical Services contract has shaped General Practice in England’. 
Julius Parker
Julius Parker
Dr Julius Parker is the Deputy Chair of the BMA GP Committee in England and joined Surrey and Sussex LMCs as a Medical Director in 2005 and was appointed CEO in 2007. As colleagues will appreciate working at an LMC is an extension of General Practice, the range of issues and questions that arise are huge, but the aim is to provide GPs and their Teams with advice, support, to encourage empowerment, and to negotiate successfully, in the best interests of General Practice. He joined GPC in 2008, and his main professional interests are Contracts and Regulation, and the future success of General Practice.
David Wrigley
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. 

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