Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government if taking to reach an agreement to end collective action by GPs.

The Government has accepted and implemented the independent pay review body recommendation of a 6% uplift in general practitioner (GP) pay, and has committed to hiring an extra 1,000 GPs.

We have announced a proposed £889 million uplift for GPs in 2025/26 and set out the proposed areas of reform. This is the largest uplift to GP funding since the beginning of the five-year framework and means that we are reversing the recent trend with a rising share of total National Health Service resources going to GPs.

The Department and NHS England started consultation with the General Practitioners Committee in England, of the British Medical Association, on the 2025/26 GP Contract on 19 December 2024, and will consider all proposed policy changes. An announcement will be made before April 2025.