Applying Guidance On Non-GMS Contracting Arrangements for 2006/7

 

In the above guidance on non-GMS contracting arrangements for 2006/7, PCTs and SHAs have been asked to introduce efficiencies into local Personal Medical Services (PMS) contracts in order to deliver the equivalent net effect due in 2006/7 from General Medical Services (GMS) contracts.

In commenting on the guidance, Dr James Kingsland, Chairman of NAPC, stated: ‘In seeking to secure such efficiencies in local PMS contracts, both practices, as well as PCTs and SHAs are reminded that as a result of the mainstreaming of PMS contracts in 2004?, the Government made a commitment not to unpick existing financial arrangements, except where local PMS contractors have agreed to such an approach, and only in those circumstances’.

Dr Kingsland continued: ‘PMS practices are encouraged to contact NAPC, where there are any proposals on the part of PCTs or SHAs to breach either the intention or the spirit of the guidance.  NAPC runs a helpline to support its members and will bring evidence of any such breaches in the application of the guidance to the attention of Lord Warner, who was responsible for issuing the joint press statement issued last week’.

Contact details for the helpline are: 020 7636 1677 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

***ENDS***

 
 

Chairman's Blog
28th November 2011

I don’t know how many of you have been watching The Frozen Planet series on the BBC but I was struck by the huge periods of total darkness and total light that engulf both poles. In reality this was something I already knew but got to experience in a more tangible way through the exploits of others. If left me with a greater appreciation of the hardship that the wildlife has to endure. It seemed that perhaps the best times involved a balance of light and dark rather than the two extremes.

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Foundation Course in PBC

Two days of interactive workshops that will equip GPs with the necessary skills to succeed as practice-based Commissioners

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By the end of the course you will:

Fully understand the background policy to PBC, including the principles of tariff prices, indicative budgets and contracting

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Press Statement - NHS Funding

 

 
NAPC very much welcomes the outcome for the NHS of the Chancellor’s comprehensive spending review, announced yesterday, with spending set to rise to £110bn by 2010 from the current £90bn.

Dr Kingsland, Chairman of the Association commented: ‘The 4% a year rise in real terms is evidence of the government’s commitment to the NHS.  The sums involved should make a real difference to the challenges it faces and to the health of the people of this country’.

‘NAPC is pleased to see that the government is set to spend over £1billion more than previously planned’, Dr Kingsland continued ‘to fund improvements in GP care’.  ‘The use of funds to improve access to services for patients is, of course, right and proper’.  ‘However,’ he stated, ‘there are some residual concerns about the ownership and management of the proposed new health centres.  Historically, NHS managed health centres, were not a success.  NAPC will be responding shortly to these and other proposals of Lord Darzi’s’.  Dr Kingsland went on: ‘It is only right and proper that efforts should be made to ensure that the investment the government makes is well-founded and produces real time benefits to patients’.

  ***ENDS***

Dr James Kingsland, NAPC Chairman:    
Telephone Number:  07887 894124

Mike Ramsden, NAPC, CEO:                  
Telephone Number:  07946 380017

 

 About National Association of Primary Care:

The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) is a non-political, non-profit-making organisation representing and supporting the interests of all its members, both individuals and organisations working in or with primary care.  It also offers support through associate membership to those bodies, which provide services to primary care or have other health-related interests.

 
 
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