Nick Bostock
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first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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And as the BMA has said, that could be a perfectly good choice, maybe even the best choice for the patient who's sitting in front of them in any consultation.
But more branded medications could also drive up costs for ICBs.
I had to look back at the measures GP practices were asked to take in 2024 when there was a previous round of collective action.
And at that stage, there was a sort of menu of 10 options.
And one of the options suggested then was to switch off medicines optimization software embedded by the local ICB for the purposes of system financial savings and/or rationing rather than the clinical benefit of.
your patients.
So that I think touches on what this measure is about.
This is about GPs stepping back from that cooperation with ICBs over cost saving around prescriptions or around prescribing.
And maybe at the same time
actually making life easier for patients and potentially for themselves as well.
Yeah, I mean I think you're I think you're right that it's um the fact that GPs are prepared to work in the NHS, prepared to consider an option like this, shows just the depth of concern about the long term funding problems that general practice faces.
The overarching message to GPs from Dr.
Bramble's speech was really around the need to stick together.
the argument that a united profession is a strong one and that rallying around collective action can be a powerful way to push back against the imposed contract in England.
As well as more broadly, the underlying long-term underfunding and workload pressures that you know GPs are facing.
Dr.
Bramble made the link between the measures around data sharing in the first stage of collective action and some of the concerns GP leaders have about this new legislation.
So I I think one of the oldest arguments GPs have always made when it comes to why they're concerned about data sharing or sharing the information collected.
Yeah.
Um, is that patients only share that information on the basis that they trust their GP.
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