General Practitioners: Finance
(asked on 6th June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total budget is for GPs in (a) Southampton, (b) the Wessex region and (c) England for each of the next five years.
The total planned revenue allocations for general practitioners (GPs) in England for each of the next five years is set out in the table below.
| 2015/16 Adjusted allocation | 2016/17 Proposed allocation | 2017/18 Proposed allocation | 2018/19 Proposed allocation | 2019/20 Proposed allocation | 2020/21 Proposed allocation |
Total NHS England allocations to General Practice (£ bn) | 7.342 | 7.664 | 7.965 | 8.269 | 8.643 | 9.122 |
The proportion of the total budget that will be allocated to Southampton and the Wessex region for general practice will depend on future decisions by NHS England and the local clinical commissioning groups.
Local primary care allocations are published on the NHS England website at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pc-medical-allocations.pdf
In addition to NHS England revenue allocations, general practice also receives funding from other sources. For example clinical commissioning groups pay for GP Out of Hours services, locally commissioned services and some GP IT funding.
The ‘General Practice Forward View’ document published in April 2016, estimated that once all of this funding from other sources was added to NHS England allocations, there would be around £9.6 billion of expenditure spent on GPs in 2015/16, rising to £12.0 billion by 2020/21, an estimated increase of £2.4 billion.