General practice in Northern Ireland is facing numerous challenges including practice contract hand-backs, financial pressures, staffing pressures, and rising patient need. Dr. Alan Stout, chairman of the BMA Northern Ireland general practitioners committee, highlighted these issues at the BMA Local Medical Committee conference in Belfast. He also emphasized the need for a local government, a health minister, and local and multiyear budgets for health service transformation.
The collapse of Stormont, the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive, has further complicated the situation
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