Birmingham Local Medical Committee represents and supports general practice to ensure that GPs are properly valued and their skills properly utilised in serving the public.
The BLMC is…
- DEMOCRATIC – comprising elected local GPs
- REPRESENTATIVE – regularly canvassing the views of local GPs and representing General Practice to CCGs, NHS England the local authority and secondary care providers; representing local GPs nationally through the GPC.
- STATUTORY – with rights and responsibilities defined by Act of Parliament
- PROFESSIONAL – concerned with promoting quality in patient care and upholding standards of professional practice
- INDEPENDENT – funded by GPs to support GPs and practices
- SUPPORTIVE – offering advice and support on all matters affecting professional activities
Industrial Action Position of LMCs
Local Medical Committees (LMCs) can speak on behalf of GPs, practices, and patients but may not engage in or encourage industrial action. LMCs are democratically elected, representing all GPs at all levels. But LMCs are not trade unions and do not have the protections of industrial relations legislation (this is the remit of the BMA and other unions). Whilst we are free to speak up on behalf of GPs, practices, and patients when others cannot, we cannot engage in discussions around, or support for, industrial action.
At BLMC we recognise the significant pressures on both the health system, and the increasingly unbearable pressure on the staff within it. For further information regarding planned industrial action by NHS staff please see: