Clare Sieber News Today

GP representatives have agreed a series of consensus statements around plans for a national association of LMCs - after a debate that exposed divided views on how it should work.

GPs are resigning their BMA memberships over the union's failure to progress with a formal ballot on industrial action as it became clear the deadline for one of the possible actions – withdrawing from the PCN DES at the next opt out – had passed.

The BMA is facing a fresh challenge over its organisational culture just two years after the Romney review found evidence of sexism and bullying - after a doctor who quit its GP committee called for an investigation and said similar issues 'appear to remain'.

The BMA's GP committee is 'failing to provide leadership to a profession that is shackled to a contract that no longer seems fit for purpose', an LMC chief executive has warned in a damning broadside aimed at the profession's top representatives.

The BMA is under pressure to consider a formal ballot on GP industrial action amid fears that an indicative vote backing action just two months ago has been 'kicked into the long grass'.

A member of the BMA's GP committee has resigned after less than four months, saying she felt bullied and unwelcome - and has concluded that the BMA is 'no place for a woman who wishes to speak her mind'.