Support your Surgery - BMA campaign
14 October 2021
The BMA continues to campaign in defence of GPs and their staff with their Support Your Surgery campaign to get the backing of patients to make the changes to primary care that are so urgently needed.
Please continue to show your support by signing the Support Your Surgery petition and sharing it with colleagues, friends, and families. It's important to get as many signatures as possible to put pressure on the Government to support general practice.
The BMA has produced a GP campaign factsheet that can be used to rebut the misinformation being published in the media and to proactively include in social media posts, letters to the local press or MPs. Please do all you can to help the BMA to defend and support general practice at this critical time.
You can also get involved in the #SupportYourSurgery social media discussion. Many GPs and patients are sharing their support for each other and practices across social media. This will help the campaign reach as many people as possible.
Following increasing instances of GPs being scapegoated by the media and rising instances of abuse against GPs and their staff, the BMA is asking members to use its template letter to write to your local MP to outline the current pressures being faced by GPs across the country.
Read the BMA’s message to the profession, including resources for practices how to remove violent patients from your practice list.