NHS payments to General Practice report published

21 Dec 2018 09:27 AM

The NHS Payments to General Practice, England, 2017/18 report has been published by NHS Digital.

The report provides details on payments to providers of general practice services in England in the past financial year.

The report includes a breakdown of payments made through the Global Sum1, Balance of Primary Medical Services (PMS) expenditure2, Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF)3 and Enhanced Services4, including an estimate of how much the NHS paid per registered patient in England5.  

The data covers payments to 7,543 general practice service providers across England.

The figures are reported at individual practice, Clinical Commissioning Group, regional and national level.

Also published is the General Practice workforce, Final 30 September 2018 report. This report presents data about GPs, Nurses, Direct Patient Care and Admin/Non-Clinical staff in general practice, along with information on their patients, practices, and the services they provide.

Read the full report

NHS Payments to General Practice, England 2017/18

Notes to editors

  1. Global Sum Payments are a contribution towards the contractor’s costs in delivering essential and additional services, including staff costs. Global Sum allocates money in accordance with perceived need. Figures are calculated quarterly, paid on a monthly basis and may change from one quarter to the next according to patient turnover and demographics.
  2. Primary Medical Services contracts are locally negotiated, but are similar to Global Sum and Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) in General Medical Services.
  3. Total QOF Payments is comprised of Quality Aspiration Payments and Quality Achievement Payments. Aspiration Payments are a part payment in advance in respect of achievement under the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
  4. Details of Directed Enhanced Services can be found at https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/gp-contract/. Total Local Enhanced Services (LES) is comprised of GP Extended Hours Access (a locally-developed service to provide extended hours access) and other LES (locally-developed services designed to meet local health needs) "Local Enhanced Services " replaces the previous "Local Enhanced Services" and "National Enhanced Services" (NES).
  5. Average payments per patient at CCG, region or national level should be treated with caution as some patients may be double-counted – for example due to practice closure – while conversely no information relating to patient list size is known for 108 practices.
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