GP leaders in Scotland demand investment to avert industrial action

The BMA’s Scottish General Practitioners Committee (SGPC) has set out a list of demands for the Scottish government to avert plans to ballot GPs on industrial action.

The committee has produced a position statement1 in response to motions passed last month at the annual conference of Scotland’s local medical committees. The conference backed calls to ballot the profession on options for industrial action in response to “years of disinvestment” in general practice and stagnation in GP partners’ pay.2

The committee said that if government actions to support general practice were not forthcoming it would “ramp up” preparations and ballot GPs over …

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