In 1997 all GP employers were deemed to be employing authorities and therefore staff and salaried doctors were allowed from that date to join the NHS Pension scheme. Practices do not have a choice, you must offer membership to all staff that hold a contract of employment, whether full time, part...
This guidance helps GPs, practice managers and LMC staff understand how individual practices receive funding under the GMS contract. This document only deals with income from the GMS contract, and does not include other income streams, such as training grants. We would advise all GPs to read the...
Guidance is available online, please follow this link
https://www.bma.org.uk/collective-voice/committees/general-practitioners-committee/gpc-current-issues/capita-service-failure
How do you decide whether or not VAT is applicable?
Where the principal purpose of the medical service is the protection, maintenance or restoration of the health of an individual then the services will be exempt from VAT.
Primary heath care provided through either the NHS or the private...
Primary Care Support England (PCSE), GP Staff Training Team, Buff Sheets, Verbal Report from Sessional Pre-Meeting 15th June 2017, Annual Conference of LMCs, Edinburgh – May 2017, Sustainability & Transformation Partnership (STP), General Practice Defence Fund (GPDF)
As of 1st April 2013, GP practices in England and Wales have become responsible for the employer’s pension contributions of the locums they engage. These payments had, until then, been made by Primary Care Organisations (PCOs)...
All practices are responsible for funding the employer...
The GP Retention Scheme is a package of financial and educational support to help doctors, who might otherwise leave the profession, remain in clinical general practice.
The GP Retention Scheme replaces the Retained Doctors Scheme 2016. The scheme continues to be managed jointly by the local...
The amount GPs are allowed to save into their pension each year before incurring a tax charge is being reduced. Any active NHS pension scheme member earning over £110,000 may be affected.
Please see attached factsheet written by James Gransby, Head of Healthcare at MHA MacIntyre Hudson (first...
To apply for your pension you need to complete form AW8, which you can obtain from:
Barry Blunt
The Staff Education Centre
Hermitage Lane
Maidstone
Kent
ME16 9NN
Tel: 01622 227555
Email: barry.blunt@nhs.net
or download the forms from the NHS Pensions Agency:...
Collaborative Working, Community Prescription Charts (Buff Forms), Waiting Room Music PRS & PPL Licences, Kent LMC Representatives 2014-2017, GMS Practice Funding Ready Reckoner, Finding a 'Common Cause', Primary Care Services review and what it may mean to your mail! Kent and Medway AAA...
The BMA/GPC have updated all their employment status (IR35) guidance into one easy-to-read document so that locum GPs have all the information they need to be confident in determining their employment status. Read more in a blog by Matt Mayer, Deputy Chair of the GP Sessional GP Committee.
Kent & Medway Medical School (KMMS) Update, Professor Chris Holland, Foundation Dean, KMMS
Indemnity Update, Keira Moulds, Head of Primary Care (Quality & Regulation), Operations and Information Directorate, NHS England
National changes to Primary Care and how they affect you, Dr Farah Jameel,...
Information from the GPC:
Internal legal advice has been requested on whether practices can charge interest on late payment from the Area Team and sue through the small claims court (assuming it has not elected to become an NHS body) for cases of non-payment. We have been advised that this...
PCSE have issued guidance regarding annual certificates. Please click on the link below which takes you to the PCSE website.
http://pcse.england.nhs.uk/nhs-pensions/
In this bulletin, you will find updates on:
Christmas and New Year: CitySprint and contact centre arrangements
IMPORTANT – new contact details for ALL GP Payments and Pensions requests and queries
Planned Downtime of Exeter System
Medical Records movement update
Performers Lists change...
We received the following communication from the BMA on the 24th March 2017 regarding QOF/GPES and Enhanced Service Payments:
Dear LMCs,
We are writing to make you are aware of the timings of GPES contract extractions this year. NHS England have informed us that due to when the Easter bank...
The 2016-17 QOF guidance has been published on the NHS Employers webpage (http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/primary-care-contacts/general-medical-services/quality-and-outcomes-framework).
The BMA webpage...
Advice and guidance produced by the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) to help GPs and local medical committees (LMCs) with decisions relating to trading in goodwill and to better understand the sale of goodwill regulations that came into force in April 2004......
To reduce workload pressures and help improve access for patients, Dr John Allingham, LMC Medical Secretary, developed and introduced a new standard protocol to St James' Surgery to allow clerical staff to play an active role in processing incoming clinical correspondence, rather than the GP...
Seniority payments are being phased out. The seniority scheme will end completely on 31 March 2020.
The link below provides BMA advice and guidance on:
What are the arrangements for phasing out seniority payments?
How will the phasing out of seniority work in practice?
Arrangements in...
The GPC produced guidance on suspended GPs in 2001. Since then, the legislative frameworks for both GP contracts and the GMC have changed. The guidance attached seeks to provide LMCs and GPs with authoritative guidance on the implications for, and actions required by, a suspended GP...
Practices were notified in the January 2019 Employers Newsletter about proposed changes to the National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019.
The proposed changes include:
introducing a new contribution rate of 20.6%...
