General Practitioners

(asked on 2nd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2016 to Question 47425, how much public money it is planned that each GP on the resilience programme will receive.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 8th November 2016

NHS England is offering support to over 1,000 general practitioner (GP) practices under the first wave of the General Practice Resilience Programme. The assessments carried out by NHS England local teams, concluded on 18 October 2016, identified 1,062 individual practices that will benefit from support this year to help improve sustainability and resilience, including support upstream of difficulties occurring. NHS England believes that the actual number to be offered support is likely to be greater, as some NHS England local teams are additionally targeting support across geographical areas more generally.

NHS England local teams have been allocated £16 million this year to fund the support, as part of the four-year £40 million General Practice Resilience Programme. NHS England local teams are now implementing the support offer to practices. They have developed the support offer in response to assessed local needs and priorities and following engagement with local key partners including clinical commissioning groups and local medical committees. The support offered to individual GP practice will vary accordingly and be subject to an agreed Memorandum of Understanding setting out the outcomes and supplies for that support. As an example, some practices may receive funding directly to support the practice achieve an agreed outcome and others may receive externally facilitated support to help achieve an agreed outcome. Where funding is used to target support across geographical areas, practices will receive information locally on the support available and how they can access this.

NHS England’s operational guidance on implementing the General Practice Resilience Programme was clear on the need and benefits of its local teams working in conjunction with clinical commissioning groups and local medical committees and other key partners to deliver the programme. This includes in the selection of practices to support under the programme. In addition, the criteria set out in the guidance to prioritise and select practices for support recognises and weights the importance of the local external perspective. Support from clinical commissioning groups, local medical committees and practices themselves (self-referring) all add weight to practices selection for support.

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