 GP Committee would be mandated to argue for the reduction in working hours in the new contract, Pulse reports. 'Our hours are at odds with family life' In June, GPs voted in favour of industrial action over a new contract that forces them to open on Saturdays. BMA members voted 57 per cent in favour of the motion at the BMA's annual conference to oppose 'the imposition of the new contract including industrial action if necessary'. GPs at the national LMC conference in March narrowly failed to pass a similar motion. Avon LMC, whose GPs look after a million patients across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, proposed opening hours should be cut to 9am to 5pm and a limit placed on the number of daily appointments. Dr Shaba Nabi, a GP in Bristol, told the UK conference: 'Our hours are at odds with family life. 'The outrage and the reactions to this motion just goes to show how gaslit we are as a profession, that we have internalised the belief that we are worthless, of no value and we should be working 12-and-a-half hours more than everyone else.'){kind=link}
Changes would see routine hours of 9am to 5pm as doctor representative body says current time ‘indirectly discriminates’ against families
GPs will vote on whether to reduce their working day by two-and-a-half hours because their current working time “discriminates” against families.
Family doctors are currently contracted to work core hours of 8am to 6.30pm.
But the motion, which will be voted on by GP leaders in England later this month, claims core hours are a “relic of history”.
Gateshead and Tyneside Local Medical Committee (LMC), a statutory body representing GPs which submitted the demand, claims the current hours “indirectly discriminate against GPs who wish to have families”.