Primary Health Care: Buildings

(asked on 15th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a ring-fenced revenue commitment in the NHS budget for primary care estate rental costs for the purposes of unlocking private sector investment in developing modern purpose-built primary care buildings.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th August 2021

No such assessment has been made. NHS England and NHS Improvement have an existing revenue budget for general practice premise reimbursements. Currently, general practitioner (GP) contractors are eligible for rental reimbursements. The type of reimbursement applicable depends on who owns the building, and entitlements are set out in The National Health Service (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) Directions 2013. Where GPs are tenants in a building owned by a National Health Service landlord or a private owner, they receive leasehold cost reimbursements.

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