Contract/PMS/GMS/APMS
Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS)
Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contracts allow NHS England to commission primary care services. This includes essential, enhanced and additional services from a wide range of providers, e.g. private health companies and social enterprises. Useful Guidance Links: GPC BMA -...
Certification - Low Calorie Diets
Patients often approach GPs with forms to fill out before they can embark on some low calorie diets. You may find this information useful: You do not have to fill out these forms You can charge a reasonable fee for filling out the form Much of the data, weight and BP is part of normal GMS...
Certification - Shared Lives
Shared Lives is a national idea rolled out to Local Authorities to encourage citizens to help share the lives of vulnerable adults. It is an excellent scheme that encourages people within communities to help vulnerable adults and get paid, while saving the state significant sums of money. Your...
DBS: Risk Assessing Staff for a DBS Check
Risk Assessment Tool This tool aims to help you risk assess staff for DBS checking. It is, of course, for your Practice to make the final decision, based on the arrangements you currently have in place, but we have provided some scenario based guidance to assist you. In this case, the risk to...
Enhanced Services
Directed Enhanced Services (DES) are nationally negotiated services, which are over and above those provided under GMS/PMS/APMS contracts, which the ICB (delegated by NHSE) are obliged to commission. Directed Enhanced Services in 2023/24 Network Contract (PCN) - Documents covering this DES...
General Practice Contract
The New General Medical Services (nGMS) contract 2003 'investing in General Practice' known as 'the blue book', was agreed in 2003 and implemented in 2004. It was a three-year contract that has seen considerable changes and enhancements year on year since then. GMS Contract Details of the...
Out of Area Registrations and In Hours Urgent Primary Medical Services (Enhanced Service)
Choice of GP Practice NHS England released guidance on the new out of area patient registration (choice of GP practice) arrangements in November 2014, click here to access this. What does this actually mean? Within the guidance was issued it identified 2 elements to this scheme which...
PCN Workforce - ARRS
The update to the GP Contract Agreement 2020/21-2023/4 brings enhancements to the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS). • increasing the cap on Advanced Practitioners from two to three per PCN where the PCN's list size numbers 99,999 or fewer, and from three to six where the...
Primary Care Networks (PCNs)
Three major pieces of work have been published: The NHS Long Term Plan The GP Partnership Review and The GP Contract changes for April 2019 and beyond. Individually these would have a significant impact on GPs and their practices but taken together they will have the most significant change...
Regulations
NHS England GP Contract documents Global sum allocation formula - a reminder from the BMA how funding for GMS practices is calculated using the Carr-Hill formula, and what is taken into account. GMS Contract 23/24 Update to GP Contract 23/24 Please click here to view our dedicated page...
Requests for pre-operative assessments or investigations
We understand that some GPs are being asked to carry out pre operative assessments by consultants on patients referred for procedures. This is not a GP contractual requirement. We have created a template letter for use when replying to such requests, should you so wish to. You can download a...
Vaccines and Immunisations - Guidance for Practices
Page Contents Vaccinations and Immunisation Programme GP Collections Timetable Immunisation Schedules Public Health Contacts for Imms and Screening SCID, BCG and Rotavirus Patient Group Directions HPV Vaccination Guidance for Healthcare Practitioners Travel Vaccinations Childhood...
“How to” Modules for GPs, Senior Leaders & Partners in General Practice - Recorded Webinars
You can record your reflections on this form or via your learning diary here: https://www.fourteenfish.com/about/learningdiary CQC are particularly keen to see any evidence of your learning and how you apply it. Our 'How to...' modules are short 2 hour sessions, aimed at decision makers and...
