The Government’s pay deal announced yesterday falls short of recommendations from the DDRB. A consolidated 2% pay increase for GPs backdated to April 2018 was announced, with an additional 1% potentially available from April 2019.
NHS England has published an addendum to the GP IT operating model, which includes requirements for CCGs, including providing a DPO support and advice function.
Pressures across Wales are putting GP out-of-hours services under ‘significant strain’. ‘With no new investment, it is no surprise that GPs are too exhausted to work out-of-hours,’ says BMA Welsh GPs committee chair Charlotte Jones.
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