Core GP Contract Extract

All GP practices in England are offered the choice to participate in this service. The purpose of the service is to support NHS England in ensuring practices are meeting contractual requirements as set out in the GMS Contract Regulations. This Service ensures standardised care and improved patient outcomes and provides the relevant management information to support practices and commissioners understand their performance and ensure they meet their core GMS contract requirements.

Formerly the GMS/Personal Medical Services (PMS) core contract data collection, this collection has been merged with Alcohol Related Risk Reduction and Dementia Data, allowing their retirement as standalone extractions. This extract incorporates aspects of the previous Named Accountable GP 2016-17 extraction, as well as new information on the identification and management of patients with frailty (at an aggregate level).

Alcohol Risk Reduction - supports direct payment to GP practices under the GMS contract and provides management information to NHS England regarding Alcohol Related Risk Reduction Scheme activity.

Dementia - supports the monitoring of diagnosis rates for dementia. Collecting dementia diagnosis data broken down by age and gender, as well as ethnicity group, allows NHS England to monitor dementia diagnoses rates at a more granular level. Collecting data on dementia care plans, dementia assessments, referral to memory clinics and prescription of antipsychotic drugs allows NHS England to demonstrate that patients are receiving the appropriate care where necessary.

GMS/PMS - a quality service which supports NHS England to ensure that practices are meeting the requirements agreed as part of the contract. This is also an important reporting tool to demonstrate that patients are receiving a quality service from their GP practice and identify to commissioners and practices any patient that has not been allocated an accountable GP.