With several documents related to the contract being released on Thursday (28th March) afternoon, we’ve taken a look at the contract updates to give you a head start on the requirements of the contract so you’re up and running quickly. Contract highlights From 1st April, there will be changes to the GMS contract with equivalent…

NHS England recently published a letter outlining details of the 2024/25 GP contract. Not many of us were expecting a huge windfall for practices this year, but even so, it was still a shock to find out just how little is being invested in general practice in the coming year. In this month’s podcast, I…

The  eagerly long-awaited GP Contract letter 2024/25 has been published. I’d like to say that I was shocked, except I’m not. I don’t think I should be surprised really. The negotiations with the consultants and junior doctors have been the first clue to what was waiting around the corner. The 1.9% teaser headline a few…

Alarm over low uplift Practice Managers have warned that practices will close and patients will suffer if it’s correct that the general practice uplift for the 2024/25 is to be less than 2%. According to a report by the Pulse, the uplift to be offered is just 1.9%. The Institute of General Practice Management commented:…

I had an inkling that the contract letter would be a bit contentious, given the protracted and somewhat painful mutterings of the BMA GP committee, but when I read it last night I was speechless. This is the second year a contract has been imposed on us without agreement. We’re in the final year of…

By Lynda Cox Practice managers of English GMS practices are grappling with the recently announced changes to the 2017/18 contract which include increases in practice funding, among other things. Most changes take effect in July 2017 – but the changes in GP sickness absence reimbursement start sooner, on 1st April. To summarise the changes, reimbursement…

As you’ve probably read by now, this week saw the publication of the new GP contract for 2017/18. Reading through the publication, it appears there’s some good news tempered, of course, by some bad. The headlines are that GPs will receive a pay rise of approximately 1% and the unplanned admissions DES will be scrapped,…