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19 June 2026

Dear colleagues FP69s, list cleansing and the £40 million question Across England, practices are witnessing an unprecedented acceleration in patient list cleansing. What might appear to be a routine administrative exercise has rapidly become one of the most significant financial and operational challenges facing general practice this year. Over the past six months alone, GP practice lists have fallen by 344,000 patients. At current Global Sum rates, that represents more t

22 May 2026

Dear colleagues Collective action against new GP contract - update The GPs Committee for England (GPCE) met yesterday, 21 May, to discuss all the issues we currently face as well as the next steps of our collective action given the imposed contract we are working under since April 2026. The next action, from 1 June is where we ask you to remove or ignore any non-contractual medicines optimisation software, and amend your choices of acute prescriptions which may fall outsi

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