NHS Payments to General Practice, England 2023/24, Management Information

'NHS Payments to General Practice in England', analysed by individual provider of general practice services and main payment category, presents information on NHS payments made to General Practices, Walk-in Centres and (combined) Walk-in Centres and Out-of-Hours practices. It is not a record of the amount of money available for direct patient care, nor the total invested in patient care through general practice. Instead, it constitutes the majority of actual monies paid to practices for all activities and costs during the 2023/24 financial year.

The amounts reflected in this report represent:

• payments to practices captured by Primary Care Support England (PCSE) delivered by Capita on behalf of NHS England and extracted from NHS England’s Integrated Single Finance Environment system (ISFE)
• payments extracted from NHS England's Integrated Single Finance Environment system (ISFE) which records invoices paid by Sub ICBs, regional local teams and by NHS England.

Complete ISFE data was not available before 2016/17 which should be taken into consideration when comparing figures from previous reporting periods.

Practices may also receive payments directly from other organisations such as Local Authority Public Health bodies, but it is not currently possible to capture such payments for this report.

The payments made to individual practices for each payment category covered by this publication are available in the Annex 1 Excel file (see Resources on the Overview page). 

The report is produced by NHS England in consultation with the Technical Steering Committee (TSC), which is chaired by NHS England and has representatives from the British Medical Association General Practitioners Committee (GPC), the Health Departments of the four UK countries and the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration.

Due to the inclusion of ISFE data since 2016/17, it is not appropriate to make comparisons with previous years.

Following a methodological change in 2018/19 to the way in which patient counts are calculated, comparisons of average payments per patient should not be made with figures prior to 2018/19 although England-level average payments per registered and weighted patient have been recalculated for 2016/17 and 2017/18 and are included here for reference.

General Practices and other providers of general practice services included within this report should use their usual local Primary Care Support England (PCSE) payments contact for queries on the figures in the first instance.

NHS England welcomes feedback on the methodology and tables within this publication. Please contact NHS England with your comments and suggestions, clearly stating ‘NHS Payments to General Practice’ as the subject heading via [email protected] or by telephone on 0300 303 5678.