Guidance and resources

This template letter sets out that a practice, or group of practices, are giving notice to end provision of certain non-contractual services.

Learn how to safely manage workload for the benefit of patients, yourself and your practice team, while working within the requirements of your contract.

Your quick reference guide to useful resources to help manage your workload and avoid unsafe situations for both practitioners and patients.

This template letter sets out that a practice, or group of practices, are giving notice to end provision of certain non-contractual services.

Direct patient access to NHS records makes it possible for private providers to do their own reviews of possible contraindications with medicine they are prescribing.

This draft text helps to push back against referrals returned under advice and guidance or rejected as out of area.

There is no requirement for them to fill out time consuming and widely varying trust referral proformas, this template supports GPs in pushing back against this.

For use when a practice has not received details of an outpatient appointment or a discharge summary within the required time frames.

This template letter is designed to explain to patients the potential risks from records access around coercion, health anxieties and data protection.

This letter covers referrals rejected by hospitals where the GP has provided all necessary information, but has not filled out the trust's proforma.

This letter explains that due to extreme workload pressures and demand, practices have no capacity for non-contractual tasks which sit outside of the ‘core’ GP contract.

Letter templates, guidance, case studies and other practical resources from the BMA's campaign to help you manage your daily work.