DAUK\u2019s GP Committee has welcomed an agreement announced by GPC England on the 2025\/26 GP contract changes.\r\n\r\nDr Steve Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK), said the most positive part of the agreement was the written commitment from the Government to fully renegotiate the national contract within this parliament.\r\n\r\nGeneral practice will receive \u00a3889m in additional core contract funding and \u00a380m for use of e-RS advice and guidance between GPs and consultants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Dr Taylor said the uplift was smaller in percentage terms than GPs receive from the total NHS budget.\r\n\r\nHe said: \u201cDAUK’s GP Committee is happy that the contract has been agreed.\r\n\r\n\u201cFor the first time in a decade, practices are getting something positive. Hopefully it\u2019s the first step on the road to renewal for general practice.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe most positive aspect is the agreement that a more substantive contract will be agreed within this parliamentary term.\r\n\r\n\u201cHowever, context is key. While \u00a3889m sounds like a lot of money, in the context of the \u00a3200bn NHS budget it\u2019s small.\r\n\r\n\u201cCurrently general practice receives 5.6% the total NHS budget.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe \u00a3889m uplift is only 4% of the \u00a322bn the Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave to the whole NHS in her autumn statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf GPs were given 5.6%, we should be receiving \u00a31.2bn.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis agreement is the start of the conversation about bringing back the family doctor, but there is still some way to go.\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 has welcomed an agreement announced by GPC England on the 2025\/26 GP contract changes. Dr Steve Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors\u2019…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59],"tags":[22,61,591,23],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","tag-dr-steve-taylor","tag-general-practice","tag-gp-contract","tag-gp-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}