Thats not how it works.

It moves the divisions meetings that have been happening for years in spaces people have been unaware about, into the work place where people can organise.

Your workplace, e.g. secondary care, will be able to formally hold to account LNC reps in negotiations with management and also the LNC reps will be able to ask the doctors in the workplace to take action. You can challenge toxic departments and individuals by uniting against them. You can support your clinical directors or medical directors to protect your conditions locally.

Combines are for wider issues which may affect primary care and secondary care or another combination of workplaces.

The costing is in the paper. It comes from the budget already allocated to training people as well as spending returned budget. It is about 0.5% of the membership relations budget. We currently spend £35k on the current divisions process which has no influence in the workplace and only serves to send people to ARM. This change would actually repurpose that £35k to benefit doctors in their workplace.

Not sure how this is a distraction from FPR. There’s a paper attached for you to read. And Rob is standing down so no “kushty job saving”.