GPs are to vote on changing their working hours to 9am to 5pm to reduce 'strain' on their workforce, it's been reported. Avon Local Medical Committee (LMC), which represents GPs in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, is to table a motion which could result in more than two hours knocked off GPs' days.
The motion, which will be heard next month, would address an "imbalance between doctors' workload and their workforce," as is part of a desire for "credible agreed workload measures." Typical GP practices are now running from 8am to 6.30pm, which would be dropped by two-and-a-half hours if voted on by GPs, and accepted by the NHS.
The motion wants GP leaders to "further develop, publicise and strongly advocate worked-up plans to introduce safe workload limits for general practice that do not constitute a breach of contract." It will be heard at the annual conference of UK local medical committees, taking place on May 10 and 11 in York, as the Mirror reports.
