BMA Focus on Advice & Guidance
The Advice and Guidance (A&G) process allows GPs to seek specialist input before making a formal referral when asking about the management of a patient’s condition. Changes to the GP contract from April 2025 offers this enhanced service to all practices with a fee attached to it.
The use of Advice and Guidance remains optional for GPs. NHS England published a national specification for the enhanced service and has confirmed that this must be followed across all systems. Where a local system is requesting a process over and above the national specification, this needs to be flagged to the LMC, or raised directly with GPC England by emailing: info.gpc@bma.org.uk
To access the BMA Focus on Advice & Guidance document, please click here.
Also available below, is our document for Advice & Guidance: