According to the president of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), a funding crisis and increased demand for care means that general practice, as patients know it in the UK, is under “severe threat of extinction.” Continue reading
GP leaders have described the 0.28 per cent overall rise in GP contract payments, which is intended to deliver a 1 per cent pay rise for GPs in 2014/15, as a “kick in the teeth”. Continue reading
NHS England is in the process of reviewing its primary care contractors’ contributions for providing out-of-hours services in a bid to ensure that there is an ‘equitable methodology in deduction across all practices and that GP practices are not being over or under charged’. Continue reading
If proposals by a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for GPs to provide urgent care in core hours to help cut A&E attendance are taken up, practices may see their funding boosted by up to 35 per cent. Continue reading
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned that GP services are under so much pressure that A&E units are having to pick up the strain because patients cannot get appointments at surgeries. Continue reading
The redistribution of funding to general practice, to the tune of £0.5bn, could see some GPs worse off as the Government strives to equalise pay across primary care. Continue reading
GPs operating as a personal medical services (PMS) organisation could be facing a tax bill that is 13.8 per cent higher than normal under new legislation coming into force on April 6. Continue reading
A recent report has found that a number of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) could either end up in deficit or just breakeven at the end of the 2013/14 financial year, with the knock-on effect that they would not be awarded quality premium payments worth up to £30,000 per GP practice. Continue reading
Last week the public sector pensions administrator warned GPs at risk from reductions in pension tax limits due to come into effect in April to seek professional advice or risk breaching the new limits. Continue reading
Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is piloting a new scheme where GP practices are paid £350 for each additional clinical session they offer during core working hours. Continue reading