Scottish dispensing practices get £2,000 to be FMD compliant
The Scottish government is giving dispensing practices£2,000 each to prepare for the upcoming Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD).
The money will allow practices to buy the equipment they need to meet the FMD terms, according to a Scottish Government spokesperson.
The Government said that dispensing practices will receive the money– which comes from a£500,000 improvement package to help them implement the directive– by the end of this financial year. Hide related content:
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GP contract: general practice reacts
Details of the new five-year GP contract were shared by NHS England yesterday.
Among other aspects, the contract comprises a£1bn investment across general practice over the next five years, including 22,000 new staff in exchange for practices working in networks; and funding to make 25% of GP appointments bookable online. Practices have also been given£20m annual funding to deal with subject access requests while a new transparency drive will ask that GPs with annual salaries greater than£150,000 are publicly named.Hide related content:
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Practices will be funded to provide direct appointment bookings through NHS 111
Practices will receive funding through the global sum to enable direct booking of GP appointments through NHS 111, NHS England has announced.
NHS England will allocate an annual£30m pot of funding to practices to help them introduce the service and cover costs arising from changes made to the extended hours access requirements. Hide related content:
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GP contract: guaranteed increase to global sum next year, BMA says
There will be a‘guaranteed’ increase in the global sum in the 2019/20 financial year, on top of the other funding settlements announced as part of the new five-year GP contract announced yesterday, the BMA has said.
The global sum for 2019/20 has not yet been decided, but it will be an increase on the£88 per patient that practices currently receive. Hide related content:
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GP contract: practices get access to DPOs through CCGs
Practices will be given access to a data protection officer (DPO) through their CCG, according to the new GP contract.
The five-year contract, announced by NHS England and the BMA yesterday, will also see a £20m funding boost added to the global sum each year– for the next three years– to cover GPs when dealing with subject access requests (SARs). Hide related content:
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GPs on more than £150k a year to be named
GPs who are drawing more than£150k per year in NHS funding will be named from 2020 as part of a drive to‘increase transparency on NHS earnings’, officials said.
As part of the new contract, a new'mechanism' will be put in place in future years to determine those GPs earning more than£150,000 a year - although it is unclear how this will work as yet. Hide related content:
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GP contract: NHS England to fund 22,000 practice staff
NHS England will fund 22,000 additional practice staff– including pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, physician associates and social prescribing workers– by 2023/24.
The announcement comes as the BMA secured today a new five-year contractual agreement with NHS England.
They will be employed as part of networks, which will receive 70% recurrent funding for physiotherapists, physician associates, clinical pharmacists and community paramedics and 100% funding for social prescribers. Hide related content:
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NHS England to fund 22,000 practice staff
NHS England will fund 22,000 additional practice staff– including pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, physician associates and social prescribing workers– by 2023/24.
The announcement comes as the BMA secured today a new five-year contractual agreement with NHS England.
They will be employed as part of networks, which will receive 70% recurrent funding for physiotherapists, physician associates, clinical pharmacists and community paramedics and 100% funding for social prescribers. Hide related content:
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Billions to be invested in practice funding through five-year GP contract
A new five-year GP contract has been agreed, with£405m of funding confirmed for 2019/20 that will in part be used to support practices to join networks.
The contract, which has been negotiated by NHS England and the BMA’s GP committee and is effective from April, will provide practices with almost£1bn of core funding over the five years - plus an additional£1.8bn investment in primary care networks. Hide related content:
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Practices given £2 per patient to join networks under new DES
A new directed enhanced service (DES) will provide practices with an average uplift of£14,000 to join a primary care network as part of the new contract announced today.
The BMA and NHS England said they expect 100% of practices to join the networks, which will be based on geography, and they will simply need to choose a lead and implement governance processes to qualify for the funding from July. Hide related content:
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The 2019/20 GP contract: all the headlines at a glance
This has been called the most significant contract since 2004, and with good reason. There have been a number of huge announcements. The main headlines include:
Billions to invested in practice funding through five-year GP contract.
NHS to fund all staff indemnity on top of global sum increase. There had been hints that the global sum would be decreased to fund the indemnity scheme. Hide related content:
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Prominent MP criticises ‘frustrating and ineffective’ GP appointment systems
A former challenger for Labour leader has publicly criticised GP practices' systems of allocating appointments to patients, calling them‘frustrating and ineffective’.
In a series of posts, MP Owen Smith - who unsuccessfully challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour Party leadership in 2016 - highlighted his own difficulties in securing a GP appointment through what he called the'telephone at 8.30am and try your luck' system. Hide related content:
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General Practice Awards winner: Teresa Chapman
The winners of the General Practice Awards 2018 were revealed at an awards ceremony on Friday, 30 November at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London hotel.
The awards celebrated their 10th anniversary last year and recognised the hard work and innovation of general practice teams and individuals.
The Practice Manager of the Year award went to Teresa Chapman, practice manager at Parchmore Medical Centre in Croydon. Hide related content:
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Medicines will be prioritised over ‘vital food’ in no-deal Brexit, says Hancock
The supply of medicines will be prioritised over‘vital food’ in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to health secretary Matt Hancock.
Speaking before the Health and Social Care Committee yesterday, Mr Hancock assured MPs there will be continuity of the medicines supply in the UK, regardless of the Brexit scenario. Hide related content:
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Revealed: NHS body could help struggling'last partner standing' practices
An NHS body could take on the lease of practices that find themselves in a‘last partner standing’ situation, NHS England has said.
Speaking at the Westminster Health Forum Event in London on 24 January, NHS England director of primary care workforce and infrastructure programmes Ian Biggs presented the emerging themes of the upcoming General Practice Premises Policy Review. Hide related content:
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