NHS England and the BMA have released a joint statement on the Carr Hill formula this week. I reproduce it below for you.
Yet again the review of the Carr Hill formula is deferred for another year. We are disappointed. While we welcome the intentions of NHS England, we do wonder if they...
Please see the information relating to the 2018/19 Indemnity settlement. GPC England and NHS England have agreed the amount to cover the increased cost of indemnity for 2018/19. This will again be £60m and be paid on a per-patient basis equivalent to £1.005 per patient. Practices and individual...
NHSE have now published the details in relation to contract changes for 23/24. All of the contract specification details can be found here.
We have attached them individually via the links below:
Enhanced service specification: weight management programme
Enhanced service specification:...
We are often asked advice about what services GPs can charge their registered patients for.
The BMA have a very comprehensive Focus on Private Practice (July 2010) document which refers to the GMS regulations and provides advice about what you can and cannot charge patients for.
There is...
NHS Employers
The GMS Contact documents are published each year on NHS Employers Website.
NHS Employers - The GMS Contract
GMS Contract Agreement 2018 -19
GP pay and expenses
The GPC have not agreed to accept a further pay uplift of 1% this year. Instead they have agreed that from 1 April...
The NHS Long Term Plan committed £4.5 billion more for primary medical and community health services by 2023/24. This will support better care for patients outside hospital in their local communities.
NHS England and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee have agreed...
The GPC has released the following statement in regards to the GP contract negotiations for 22/23.
As you will probably be aware, despite negotiations between GPC England and NHS England about amendments to the five year contract deal agreed in 2019, NHS England announced last week that the...
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OFFICIAL GPCE INFO: LMC update 3 April 2024
On behalf of GPC England, I want to thank every single GP and GP registrar across the country who took part in our referendum. Let us not forget, this referendum wasn't even a ballot, it was merely a dress rehearsal for what's around the...
New obligation
From October 2016, as set out in regulations, every GP practice in England will be required to submit an online return twice a year through the Primary Care Web Tool: www.primarycare.nhs.uk within a new module titled 'Biannual Extended Access'. This will set out what access to...
The LMC has recently received questions from practices about how to informally close their practice list. We have prepared these FAQs to assist practices.
Which practices can informally close their list of registered patients?
All practices have a contractual right to decline to register any...
2017/18 GMS AGREEMENT FAQs
Guidance published by the BMA is available here
Any further questions, please dont hesitate to contact the LMC office on 0116 2962950 or enquiries@llrlmc.co.uk
Generally, if the practice is receiving rent from those subletting, then it would be reasonable for the notional rent to abated. However, if this is not the case and the room is being used to provide services that are supporting the delivery of Primary care this would not be the case, though it...
Funding & charging for vaccines
In light of the changes to vaccine guidance, we have updated our guidance and would like to acknowledge Wessex LMC for sharing their guidance.
The 2020/21 contract changes saw a change to the funding arrangements for vaccination and immunisations in the GP...