Publication, Part of NHS Payments to General Practice
NHS Payments to General Practice, England 2023/24, Management Information
Other reports and statistics,
Removal of PCN Payment Categories
In June 2023 a change was made in the recording of payments to PCN’s. These payments are now attributed to the PCN rather than a nominated practice within each PCN. As a result, we are unable to identify the practices that these PCN payments should be attributed to from our existing dataset and have had to remove PCN Leadership, PCN Support, PCN Workforce, PCN Care Home Premium, PCN Extended Hours Access, PCN Investment and Impact Fund and PCN Enhanced Access payment categories from the 2023/24 report. PCN Participation payments, which relate to all practices taking up membership of a PCN, are not affected by this change as they are paid directly to a GP Practice and are included in all tables, averages and totals. We are working to resolve for future publications.
29 May 2025 09:30 AM
Glossary of Terms
| Contracts - APMS |
A more flexible contract and open to a wider range of providers including the independent sector. Where the practice is a PMS or APMS practice, the provisions of services will be on the same basis as described in the General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlement. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-primary-medical-service-directions |
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| Contracts - GMS | A GMS practice is one that has a standard, nationally negotiated contract. Within this, there is some local flexibility for GPs to 'opt out' of certain services or 'opt in' to the provision of other services. |
| Contracts - PMS | The PMS contract was introduced in 1998 in England and Scotland (as in the Section 17c agreement) as a local alternative to the national GMS contract. PMS contracts are voluntary, locally negotiated contracts between Primary Care Organisations (PCOs) and the PMS Provider, enabling, for example, flexible provision of services in accordance with specific local circumstances |
| FIMS | Financial Information Management System |
| ISFE | NHS England’s Integrated Single Finance Environment |
| NHAIS | National Health Applications and Infrastructure Services - also known as “Exeter” |
| NHS E | NHS England |
| PCSE | Primary Care Support England |
| PCN | Primary Care Network. Since July 2019, most GP practices have joined with other practices and care providers in their local area to form one of around 1,250 Primary Care Networks (PCNs). Instigated as part of the NHS long-term plan, PCNs were created to provide accessible and integrated primary, mental health, and community care for patients. |
| QOF | The Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) is the annual reward and incentive programme detailing GP practice achievement results. QOF is a voluntary process for all surgeries in England and was introduced as part of the GP contract in 2004. |
| Sub ICB | Sub Integrated Care Board Location (formerly known as Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) |
| TSC | Technical Steering Committee, which is chaired by NHS England and has representatives from the British Medical Association General Practitioners Committee (GPC), NHS Employers, the Health Departments of the four UK countries and the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration. |
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