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Wes Streeting has come out strongly to advice GPs to desist from ‘punishing’ patients through industrial action. 
 
The British Medical Association launched the strike and insisted that family doctors should ground the NHS from Thursday depending on the members who declared the first-ever industrial action in 60 years. 
 
The union has asked its members to vote in relation to plans that entail massive disruption, which is expected to last for months and the results are due Thursday. 
 
Consultants have been advised that they can select as many of the measures aimed at creating disruption across the health service as they wish. 
 
These are: limiting the number of such appointments, so practices could effectively refuse to take record numbers of patients, thereby increasing pressure on the NHS’s111 service and A&E. 
 
The health chiefs have stated that the given action might be “catastrophic,” and pharmacists anticipate a “substantial increase in patients who failed to get assistance from their GP. ” 
 
In The Telegraph, the Health Secretary called for family doctors to reconsider the decision and said he would join them to “repair the front gate to the NHS. ” 
 
He stated that it was the last government that deserved ‘a kicking’ for the pressure the service was now experiencing, not patients. 
 
Mr Streeting recalled the previous government being accused of under-recruiting doctors and said GPs were ‘overworked’ while 1. Another one, 4 million patients wait for their appointments over a month. 
 
The health Secretary promised to remove bureaucracy to produce another thousand GPs in work this year, to remove many ‘tick-box’ objectives and to incentivise the family doctoring, so patients can see a preferred doctor. 
 
“I can see why GPs wished to knuckle the previous government. But they are midway to giving a kicking to patients instead. The Tories got their kicking at the general election you see,” he points out. 
 
“I would like to redefine partnership between GPs and the government: we are a generation that can revive the NHS from the worse state in its existence and prepare it for the future,” the man said He continued: “I need GPs to help me change the NHS for the better and give the patient the service they need. ” 
 
Thus, since the measures have not violated contractual rights and duties, from Thursday, GPs can do any actions they wish, without notifying their patients. 
 
Health chiefs have said that the strategy would not allow for areas to prepare contingents for the practice which undertakes the drastic steps. 
 
GPs under threat are being invited to partake in as many as nine types of industrial action, one of which limits the amount of patient interactions per day including face-to-face appointments, video and electronic communication to 25 for each GP. 
 
This is a third less than the current work load according to the union, which has claimed that the average GP now has 37 patient contacts daily. 
 
Those patients who exceed the cap will be transferred to other local urgent care centers such as the NHS 111 or other Walk-In Clinics whenever the above amount is reached. 
 
Some are not participating in standard NHS operational procedures, for example, where they do not send patients to hospital specialists’ letters or data sharing with local health bodies. 
 
It is focused on the GPs’ contracts which, according to the BMA, are underfinanced. 
 
As you were, on Monday the Chancellor said that GPs are set for a 6 per cent pay rise as part of the package but Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer chair of the BMA’s GPs committee she said it is not enough. 
 
On Thursday Mr Streeting is to set out measures to increase the workforce and introduce up to 1000 more GPs as part of attempts to convince family doctors that he wants to transform their fortunes. 
 
Under the plans, the Department of Health and Social Care will “cut bureaucracy”, which to date means that £82million fund pool can only be used to remunerate non-GP staff members in practises. 
 
The changes will amount to 1,000 additional GPs that could be used within the next twelve months hired with the help of newly-qualified doctors who will be in place this autumn. 
 
GPs are already complaining that many family doctors have been rendered jobless in the past year, at the same time as record waits to see a family doctor are being reported. 
 
The last published data for June indicates more than 1. Seven days a week, four million people waiting a month to see a GP. 
 
In the last government, health chiefs proposed a central scheme; the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme grants money from the centre for practices to recruit workers such as pharmacists and paramedics. 
 
Thus, the tradition of having a family doctor as one’s appointment al the GP surgeries has not been the case in the recent past. 
 
GPs have given information over the last few months how they were struggling to get jobs, with practices stopping recruitment, although there are still long delays to be able to get an appointment with a family doctor. 
 
Speaking to Mr Streeting, he said that Rishi Sunak left the country in the stupid place where the patient cannot access the General Practitioner, at the same time, the General Practitioner cannot look for a job. 
 
Indeed the first Liberal/ Labour action since the return of Harold Wilson. 
 
GPs have not staged action since 1964 when family doctors in large formations presented themselves with undated resignations to the Harold Wilson government. 
 
On Sunday, Dr Bramall-Stainer explained the planned action means that the “NHS would virtually come to a standstill very, very quickly. ” 
 
However, she insisted: “It is industrial action, but the hurt is not on patients The hitmen have been directed at the NHS England [and the] Department of Health. ” 
 
The Patients’ groups have weighed into the plans labeling GPs as selfish indicating that in their attempts to provide ammunition against such contracts, they will lose the good conscience of the people, the contracts being quite generous. 
 
Thus, the majority of GPs are partners, the average income of which is £153,000 per year; moreover, most of them work three days a week. 
 
Malcolm Harrison, the head of the Company Chemists’ Association accented that pharmacists are prepared for16 increase the density of patients they are going to treat since GPs are going on strike today. 
 
Senior managers, especially those from NHS England, said that collaborative action would compound pressure on hospitals and 999 services and last for an extended period. 
 
The public has been encouraged to seek care even if its surgery is participating in the action.