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BMA Support your surgery campaign #supportyoursurgery

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/covid-19/gp-practices/support-your-surgery

The LMC is pleased to see the new BMA #supportyoursurgery campaign to support General Practice.

GPs and their teams have faced an extremely challenging time during the COVID-19 pandemic. The restrictions have meant that face-to-face contact with patients has been limited in order to keep practice staff and patients safe.

The Support Your Surgery campaign provides GP practices with the tools to both manage expectations and to provide patients with the reality of issues facing general practice.

Alongside this, we have launched a petition calling on the UK Government to provide the urgent resourcing needed to increase the number of GPs in England.

Sign to support your surgery (e-activist.com)

Print, display and share posters and graphics to inform patients about the work you are doing and the challenges GPs face.

How to get involved

We feel it is important that we are upfront with patients, so they understand the reality that we are all facing and the underlying reasons for this, and that, despite the easing of lockdown, the pressures experienced by general practice and the rest of the NHS are unlikely to ease soon.

To support this campaign, we have produced a number of different materials that you can use with patients:

Join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #supportyoursurgery

You can also show your support for the campaign by adding a ‘Support Your Surgery’ Twibbon to your social media profile.