Doctors in England were today slammed for threatening industrial action over being ‘asked to do the very basics’ of their jobs, amid a growing dispute between GPs and the Goverment

Doctors in England were today slammed for порнушка секс threatening industrial action over being ‘asked to do the very basics’ of their jobs, amid a growing dispute between GPs and the Goverment.

Health Secretary published proposals last week to give general practice £250million this winter to offer more in-person appointments and same-day care.

Under the plans, the would publish league tables of how many face-to-face appointments each of the 6,600 surgeries in England offered — effectively ‘naming and shaming’ those that do not offer enough. 

But the British Medical Association’s England GP committee yesterday rejected the proposals, as well as separate rules that would have them oversee the Covid vaccination exemption process and force the highest earning doctors to publicly declare their salary.

They will hold a ballot — at a yet to be confirmed date — on whether they should take industrial action over the plans by refusing to comply with them.

While it would not be an outright strike, the move could see thousands of doctors reduce the amount of work they undertake at a critical time heading into winter.

It is not yet clear what impact the industrial action would have on patient care, but it could lead to rejecting to see more people in-person, fewer visits to care homes and refusing to write certificates for people medically unable to get a Covid jab. 

But Matthew Lesh, of the Adam Smith Institute think tank, told MailOnline workers are normally ‘dismissed’ when they fail to do their job, but GPs ‘find it outrageous’ that people want more face-to-face appointments.’Being asked to do the very basics of your job does not justify strike action,’ he said.

And Dennis Reed, head of campaign group Silver Voices, urged the Government and doctors to ‘get together and sort it out in the interest of patients’.

It comes as doctors said this week they have no capacity to play a major role in speeding up the rollout of Covid booster drives, because of the surge in demand for appointments post-lockdown.

Mr Lesh, head of research at the Adam Smith Institute, said: ‘Normally when a worker fails to do their job they are dismissed.

‘But somehow GPs find it outrageous that taxpayers, who are paying their salaries, мультяшный секс are demanding that they provide face-to-face appointments.

‘This speaks to a broader systematic failure of the NHS to treat patients as important customers, rather than as an inconvenience with far too many demands.

‘It’s particularly absurd that GPs are threatening to strike over Government requests to actually see patients in person.’

Mr Lesh said the structure for incentivising GP practices — which are currently paid based on the number of patients on their lists — should be changed so they are paid per appointment.

Meanwhile, Mr Reed told MailOnline: ‘I would have thought there would be urgent steps from Government to convene a meeting with doctors to thrash this out.’

He said: ‘It’s going to be the patients that suffer the collateral damage if there is a bitter dispute between the doctors and the Government. And I’m afraid in all this hot air and emotion it’s the patients who are being forgotten.

‘The quite reasonable demand for the number of remote consultations to be reduced and the number of face-to-face appointments to be increased appears to have basically set this off.

‘There must be a lot of ill feeling between the doctors and the Government for this simple request for an improvement in service to promote such an action.’

Mr Reed said he would be ‘quite sympathetic’ to GPs if they were threatening strike action because they want to increase in-person appointments, but do not have the resources.

‘But they don’t seem to be saying that.They seem to be saying they don’t want to improve access for patients to GPs, which I find rather sad and секс порна disappointing,’ he said.

It’s ‘quite unusual’ for public service workers to take action because they don’t want to improve patient access, Mr Reed said.

He said: ‘I would obviously warn against any action that prevented diagnosis of serious conditions.And I can’t imagine doctors would want to take action that could actually harm patients.’

It would be ‘a type of Armageddon industrial action’ and ‘outrageous’ if GPs reduced their visits to care homes because those residents are the ‘most vulnerable and fragile in society’, Mr Reed added.

The Health Secretary’s plans — which triggered outrage among doctors — included extra funding for surgeries to boost their capacity for face-to-face appointments.

Before the pandemic, around eight in 10 appointments happened face-to-face, but just 58 per cent took place in-person in August. 

The cash would go towards using locums and other health staff — such as physiotherapists and podiatrists — to increase same-day care.

Under the plans, the NHS would also publish a league table of how many in-person consultations each GP surgery has per month to ‘enhance transparency and accountability’.

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