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‘General practice is experiencing unprecedented workload and workforce challenges.

NHSE has announced in consultation with the GPC key changes to the GMS Contract in England for 2017/18. This sees investment of £238.7 million. So what does this entail? Below is our summary of the contract and what it could mean to your practice in the coming year. A pay uplift of one per cent and general expenses uplift of 1.4 per cent.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have published this year’s operational and contracting planning guidance three months earlier than normal to help local organisations plan more strategically. For the first time, the planning guidance covers two financial years, to provide greater stability and support transformation. This is underpinned by a two-year tariff and two-year NHS Standard Contract.

  The General Practice Development Programme has developed 10 high impact actions that can make a real difference to how services to patients can be streamlined to become more effective and enable patients to see the most appropriate health care professional to meet their needs.   For more information, please click on the link below https://www.england.nhs.

Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) The NHS and local councils have come together in 44 areas covering all of England to develop proposals and make improvements to health and care. These proposals, called sustainability and transformation plans (STPs), are place-based and built around the needs of the local population.