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NHSScotland Payments to General Practice

This annual release produced by Public Health Scotland in partnership with NSS Practitioner Services provides information on NHSScotland payments to General Practices. Information is presented at General Practice level and geographical hierarchies are available.

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Source GMS practices: Information is provided by NSS Practitioner & Counter Fraud Services General Practice Payment System. Non-payment 17C and 2C practices: Information is provided by NHS Boards. Calculations as per GMS Statement of Financial Entitlements. (https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/sfe-2023-24.pdf)
Author Primary Care and Prescribing
Last Updated December 4, 2024, 15:15 (GMT)
Created January 14, 2021, 10:30 (GMT)
Contact Address Public Health Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB
Subject Payments to General Practices
Frequency Annual publication every November.
Time frame of data and timeliness Publications will be approximately 6 months after end of the index financial year.
Coverage Spatial data applicable to a financial year.
Completeness Includes all General Practices in Scotland that receive payments from the NHS. Practices can open, close, merge with other practices, change their name, or change their PracticeType (e.g. from GMS to 2C) over the course of time.
Accuracy Information is accurate and signed off by the Associate Director, Contractor Finance, NSS Practitioner Services.
Continuity of data Data is available for each financial year from 2013/14 to 2023/24. Prior to 2018/19 a Correction Factor payment was included, in 2018/19 this was replaced by an Income and Expenses Guarantee payment. Prior to 2016/17 there were payments for a Quality and Outcomes Framework, this framework was decommissioned in April 2016. Quality payments were made to practices for transitional arrangements in 2016/17, and in 2017/18 Quality payments were made for cluster quality work. In 2018/19 a new GMS contract was introduced and for 2018/19 and 2019/20 quality payments have been for Total Quality Arrangements. From 2020/21 these payments are now included under Professionalism. From 2020/21 to 2022/23 a COVID Support payment and Enhanced Service Estimate payment were made to practices.
Concepts and definitions The Data Dictionary contains notes that explain the Types of Payments included.
Disclosure None applied. The PHS protocol on Statistical Disclosure Protocol is followed.
Revision statement These data are not subject to planned major revisions.
Official statistics designation Official Statistics
Relevance and key uses of the statistics These data promote transparency of Scotland’s expenditure in General Practice.
Format csv
Language English
Links

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-payments-to-general-practice/