GPC England has fully agreed to the 2025/26 GMS contract changes

Dear all, 

The GPC England Chair, Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer, has just announced in her speech to Special Conference of England LMCs that the Government has formally committed to renegotiating a completely new national contract. GPC England has therefore now fully agreed changes to the 2025/26 contract.

We have received the Government’s commitment, in writing, “to working with the GPC England to secure a new substantive GP contract within this Parliament, without preconditions, based on collaborative work, and in the spirit of mutual trust and good faith, with general practice at the heart of a neighbourhood health service”. 

The 2025/26 contract brings new investment of £969m on top of the £433m invested in autumn last year totalling £1.4bn investment since July 2024. This is a first step in the right direction for general practice in England and it follows two months of intense negotiations with the Government and a year of collective organising and action. Read more about the contract www.bma.org.uk/gpcontract

We know that you will still have some unanswered questions, and we will be sharing more guidance and FAQs very soon. We would like to offer our sincere thanks to everyone who has helped us by their efforts in taking collective action - we could not have secured this commitment to a new substantive practice contract without you.

Many of the items on the collective action menu are now superseded by the 25/26 contract but we now focus on what is needed locally: we continue to recommend practices work safely to prioritise safe high-quality patient care. We advise practices to engage with their LMCs and negotiate local contracts to secure appropriate resources to deliver safe care for our patients to stop patients falling through local gaps in commissioning.

These 2025-26 changes represent an important first step towards the recovery of General Practice services in England and set us on a journey towards making NHS general practice once again the jewel in the NHS crown.

Read the press statement: GPs have been neglected and bringing back the family doctor now a priority, says GPCE leader as DHSC commits to renegotiating new contract - BMA media centre - BMA

Catharina Öhman

Senior policy advisor (General Practice)

National negotiations and representation

British Medical Association

T: 020 7383 6446 |E: cohman@bma.org.uk