According to the British Medical Association (BMA), some GP practices are facing a ‘financial cliff edge’. This is because of inadequate information about funding and because they have been unable to access reprieve funding under the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) transition programme, which provides vital cash support for vulnerable practices. Continue reading
New research has found that GPs are finding it increasingly difficult to make funding meet demands, leaving them ‘overstretched and underfunded’ but it also highlights that general practice is offering excellent value to the NHS, costing only £136 per patient. Continue reading
NHS England has announced that the average pay figure of a GP in both private medical services (PMS) and alternative provider medical services (APMS) practices will be published next week in the first of a series of annual publications, although this year the figures will not be broken down to individual net pay. Continue reading
NHS England has admitted that figures used to calculate Minimum Payment Income Guarantee (MPIG) losses at a number of GP practices were wrong but critics are concerned that the organisation still has not recognised the full extent of the problem. Continue reading