No timelines will be set for new contract — IMO

The IMO is not setting any timelines for the introduction of a new under-sixes or a replacement GMS contract, describing such deadlines as “unhelpful” to the negotiation process. GP Committee Chair Dr Ray Walley told IMT that the union was engaging with the Department of Health according to their framework agreement, but that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”. “I think timelines are unhelpful,” commented Dr Walley, who pointed out the IMO had spent three years in vain trying to get a meeting with the Minister for Health to discuss a new contract, and to resolve concerns the union…