General Practitioners: Finance

(asked on 13th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to allocate additional funding to GP practices to enable the recruitment and appointment of Primary Care Network medical directors.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 16th May 2019

Each Primary Care Network (PCN) is required to appoint a Clinical Director. Under the terms of the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) contract specification published by NHS England in March 2019, PCNs can claim funding for this role. It is a population-based payment calculated using a baseline equivalent of 0.25 Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) per 50,000 registered population size, as at 1 January 2019 (one WTE being paid £137,516 in 2019/20). This is a payment of £0.51430 per registered patient for the period 1 July 2019 to 31 March 2020 (which equates to £0.057 per patient per month), reflecting the fact that the Network Contract DES begins in July 2019 - this will be the point at which the Clinical Directors take up their posts.

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