Emma Bower

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1,286 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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Talking General Practice · New BMA England GP committee chair Dr Clare Bannon on securing a better deal for general practice · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

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Aside from streamlining that, is there anything else you would like to really see as part of an overhaul of the contract? matched

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I saw some headlines this morning in The Times about GP partner pay and there was a comment from you in there. matched

And perhaps, you know, one of the reasons we've got to this point where the GP contract is all so complicated is because governments have often been quite reluctant to put lots of extra money into the partnership model where matched

Partners can effectively decide what they want to do with that money and ministers want to know what that money is going to deliver. matched

So that's why it's often been attached to specific things. matched

How can the BMA GP committee address those concerns from ministers who may feel that GP partners see this as an opportunity for a pay rise if more money is put into the core contract? matched

Scotland, you know, they secured a new deal relatively recently, which was all based on increased funding for employing more GPs. matched

Is that something that you'd back in England as well? matched

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Obviously, the other thing when we're talking about funding is the Carhill funding formula. matched

We know that the government commissioned a review and it probably has the findings of those reviews sitting somewhere in the Department of Health. matched

The BMA obviously hasn't been involved in that process so far. matched

It's really widely accepted by almost everyone that that funding formula is out of date. matched

Will you be pushing for it to change and how do you want to see it change? matched

The challenge is the money's only there if ministers are prepared to provide it. matched

And obviously the government already has kind of indicated that its big priority is going to be social care. matched

I mean, do you think they're going to be quite challenging discussions that you're going to have to have with ministers over the coming months? matched

I don't matched

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