DAUK\u2019s GP committee says the agreed 2025\/26 GP contract is a start to fixing the \u2018significant issues facing general practices\u2019.\r\n\r\nHowever, Dr Steve Taylor, DAUK\u2019s GP spokesperson, fears much of the \u00a3969m funding uplift, will go towards increased National Insurance contributions, staff, and costs.\r\n\r\nAnd he called for greater future investment in general practice to \u2018reverse the decline\u2019 of the past decade and more.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor said: \u201cThe new GP contract goes a small way to fix some of the significant issues for GP practices, in that it prevents further declines in funding with a small percentage increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSadly, much of the increase in funding will be lost to National Insurance contributions, staff and on costs.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhile there has been an acknowledgment of the need to invest in community services, a much larger investment will be needed to reverse the decline and build more capacity for the future.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe look forward to seeing greater emphasis placed on GP provision in the future years.\r\n\r\n“We also hope that amendments to the legislation on National Insurance contributions for GP practices<\/a>, recommended by the House of Lords, will be implemented without a cut in this proposed budget.”\r\n\r\nHis comments come as GPC England voted to accept the proposed contract, which includes an overall funding uplift of \u00a3969m for 2025\/26, contingent on full renegotiation of the national contract within this parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key headlines from the 25-26 GP contract changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Lizzie Toberty, DAUK GP lead, said: \u201cWe welcome the Government’s emphasis on continuity of care and patients being able to see the same doctor.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is how high quality care which facilitates the move from hospital to community can happen, and there are huge efficiencies to be gained as well.\u201d\r\n\r\nDr Rosie Shire, DAUK GP committee member, added: \u201cThe move to increase ARRS (Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme) funding for GPs is helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHowever, it is not clear if GP ARRS posts are going to be open to experienced GPs as well, or whether they will continue to be restricted to those within two years of qualifying.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have thousands of GPs out of work and struggling to find work, and practices need to be able to employ the GPs they need.\r\n\r\n\u201cFunding GPs, who can give patients continuity of care, is the best use of the ARRS funds and will keep more patients out of hospital.\u201d\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to our crowd funder<\/a> or by becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DAUK\u2019s GP committee says the agreed 2025\/26 GP contract is a start to fixing the \u2018significant issues facing general practices\u2019. However, Dr Steve Taylor, DAUK\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59],"tags":[389,658,426,22,304,591,23],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","tag-bma","tag-dr-lizzie-toberty","tag-dr-rosie-shire","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-gp-committee","tag-gp-contract","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","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=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Contract changes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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