This week the GPonline team looks at the government’s plan to tackle the backlog of care in the NHS and what it all means for general practice.

They’re also discussing reports that health secretary Sajid Javid has recommended to Boris Johnson that family doctors should be directly employed by hospitals instead of running their own surgeries - a proposal some have said would effectively nationalise GPs.

In other news, they look at what’s going on at the BMA with industrial action and consider why debates about this within the association have echoes of the Romney report into sexism a couple of years ago. And they discuss a new report from the association about racism in the NHS.

There’s also the usual dose of good news to finish off.

This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower who is joined by news editor Nick Bostock and senior reporter Luke Haynes. It was produced by Czarina Deen.

Useful links

●     No let-up for GPs as Javid says NHS waiting list will grow for two more years

●     Plans to tackle NHS backlog threaten extra pressure on overstretched GPs

●     Exhausted GPs could quit PCN leadership roles amid doubts over funding

●     Fresh questions over BMA culture two years after Romney sexism review

●     BMA's GP leaders failing a profession 'shackled to a contract no longer fit for purpose'

●     NHS leaders have 'heads in sand' over widespread racism, BMA warns

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