GP leaders have given new details of their proposed industrial action after the collapse of a deal on the government’s “name and shame” plans.

The British Medical Association set out four areas of action which doctors will take if they vote to support the protest in a ballot. It said the actions would mainly have an impact on administration and “time wasting” parts of their contract – rather than on patient safety and care.

Last week GP leaders thought they had reached a deal with NHS England to abandon the “name and shame” league tables the government intends to publish to highlight practices allegedly not offering enough face to face appointments. But the deal was repudiated by health secretary Sajid Javid.

The BMA proposes to “disrupt” collection of appointment data and prevent the creation of the league tables. Practices would also refuse to submit GP earnings data to NHS England. They would also refuse to provide COVID vaccine exemption certificates to patients. And they would disengage from Primary Care Network direct enhanced services.

BMA GP committee Dr Richard Vautrey said: “It’s important to stress that these actions are not directed at patients, nor the care they receive, but absolutely at the Government and NHS England, and in the interests of patient safety, they must act now to stop the abuse, reverse the unsustainable workload and address the burnout felt by so many GPs and their teams. When you add to that the levels of bureaucracy we are expected to cope with, the time has come to say we cannot go on like this anymore. Yet the Government and NHS England’s plan to solve this and support practices through the winter will make matters a lot worse. The Government’s plan has simply added fuel to the fire in creating further bureaucracy and punitive measures for practices and demoralised the whole workforce.”