GPs in England have voted to take industrial action over the Government's scheme to boost face-to-face appointments.
Eight in 10 doctors said they would be happy not to provide data on the number of patients they see in-person and refuse to write vaccination exemption letters.
The ballot by the British Medical Association (BMA) found nearly nine in 10 said they would be willing not to comply with the contractual requirement for the highest-earning GPs to publish their salaries.
Dr Farah Jameel, the new chair of the BMA, today said the results show GPs and practice staff 'are frustrated, struggling and are desperate to see change'.
The union said it is yet to decide its next steps and whether it will go ahead with industrial action.
If industrial action does go ahead, it will be the first among medics since the junior doctors strike over changes to their contracts five years ago.
The poll of nearly 2,000 GP practices in England was prompted by a £250million package of measures to get patients more in-person consultations with GPs. Sajid Javid's blueprint included a scheme which would effectively 'name and shame' underperforming surgeries.
An extra 2million face to face GP appointments were held in October but are still a far cry from pre-pandemic levels
The number of GP appointments with a doctor present fell below 50 per cent for the first time this year, with staff members such as nurses, pharmacy assistants, physiotherapists and even acupuncturists seeing more patients in total than GPs
The average number of sessions GPs works in a day have gone down over the last decade while their wage growth has gone up. In 2012 the average GP worked 7.3 sessions a week but this has now fallen to 6.6 a week, the equivalent of just over three days of work a week. In the same period the average GP income went up by more than £6,000. A GP's daily work is divided into sessions. According to the NHS, a full-time GP works 8 sessions a week, formed of two sessions a day, generally starting at 8am and finishing at 6.30pm, though these hours can vary
The Health Secretary's plan, released in October, outlined that practices could use the extra cash to hire more locums and use other healthcare staff to see more patients in-person.
The plan requires doctors to see people face-to-face unless there is a good reason not to and share practice-level data on how many patients they see in their surgeries.
