{"id":1341,"date":"2025-02-27T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/lords-ni-gp-vote-welcomed\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:30:10","slug":"lords-ni-gp-vote-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/lords-ni-gp-vote-welcomed\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK welcomes Lords vote to exempt GP practices from NI rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK\u2019s GP committee says general practice has been \u2018thrown a lifeline\u2019 by a House of Lords vote to exempt practices from having to pay increased National Insurance contributions.\r\n\r\nPeers voted to exempt health and care providers, including NHS GP services, from the higher rates when they are introduced in April.\r\n\r\nThey voted in favour of an amendment to the National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill that practices would continue to pay current contributions.\r\n\r\nThe amendment also extends to NHS-commissioned dentists and pharmacists, charitable providers of health and care, and those providing hospice care.\r\n\r\nDr Ellen Welch, DAUK\u2019s vice chair and a GP, said: \u201cGP surgeries are struggling to survive. Hundreds have already closed their doors, and many GPs are struggling to find work.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere are fears across the GP community that an increase in employer national insurance costs could have dire consequences and might well be the expense that makes many unviable.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is a welcome intervention by the House of Lords and feels like general practice has been thrown a lifeline.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis needs to be the moment the government invests properly in general practice and in the health of the nation.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere is huge efficiency to be gained when GPs can build trust and continuity with their patients.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt provides better outcomes, lower admissions, higher patient satisfaction, and savings to the public purse.\u201d\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\">our crowd funder<\/a> or by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK\u2019s GP committee says general practice has been \u2018thrown a lifeline\u2019 by a House of Lords vote to exempt practices from having to pay increased&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[324,62,23],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-practice","tag-dr-ellen-welch","tag-gp","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}