GP Payments 2018/19
Payments to General Practices in NHSScotland, at Practice level, for the financial year 2018/19.
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. Note the following changes in 2018/19:
A81012, G43581, N30078, S71449 - Practice resulted from merger occurring during 2018/19, income represents the total of that for the merged and predecessor practices.
A80895, G43415, G43345, N30773, N30805, S70959, S70037, S70643 - Practice closed during course of 2018/19. The payment figures for this practice will not be comparable to those for the other practices.
N30275, V25012, L63279, Y18381 - Practice lost patients to other practice in 2018/19.
N30294, V25972, L63724, Y18396 - Practice gained patients from other practice in 2018/19.
A80626, C84523, T11931 - GMS practice changed to non-payment.
C87240, G43557 - 2C practice changed to GMS.
Data Dictionary
| Column | Type | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| FinancialYear | text | The date of the financial year (ccyy/yy e.g. 2019/20) | |
| HB | text | Health board 2019 Code of GP Practice | |
| PracticeCode | numeric | Five digit numeric GP Practice Code | |
| PracticeType | text | GP practice contract type. GMS (17J): This type of contract is defined under Section 17J of the 1978 Act. The contract was nationally negotiated with some local flexibility for GPs to 'opt out' of certain services or 'opt in' to the provision of other services. 17C: Formerly known as 'Personal Medical Services' or PMS agreements, these are locally negotiated agreements which are more flexible in accordance with local circumstances. Whilst the majority of 17C practices are paid through the Practitioner Services payment system, the payments are not all broken down by the various GMS categories, and can vary by NHS Board in the way they are broken down. For this publication we have included the Global Sum amount for all practices including those that do not record this in the payment system at the practice level. 2C: 'Health Board Primary Medical Services' contracts, where the NHS Board can, in certain circumstances, make arrangements with either a NHS organisation or a non-NHS organisation for the provision of NHS services. Often, these Section 2C practices are run by the Boards themselves and only a total figure for payments is available. However, as the Global Sum is calculated for all practices we have included the Global Sum figure for these practices. | |
| PracticeListSize | numeric | The number of patients registered with the GP practice. The Practice List size is at the start of the financial year. | |
| PracticeListSizeQF | text | Qualifier for PracticeListSize | |
| GlobalSum | numeric | Global Sum Payments are a contribution towards the contractor’s costs in delivering essential and additional services, including its staff costs. The total Global Sum amount for Scotland is distributed amongst practices on a weighted capitation basis using the Scottish Allocation Formula. This formula allocates resources to GP practices on the basis of the practice workload and needs of their patients, taking into consideration the relative costs of service delivery. | |
| CorrectionFactor | text | Prior to 2018/19, a payment adjustment initially linked to the minimum practice income guarantee made as part of the 2004 contract in the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004. This correction factor was agreed to ensure that no practice was disadvantaged as a result of the introduction of the contract. | |
| CorrectionFactorQF | text | Qualifier for CorrectionFactor | |
| IncomeAndExpensesGuarantee | text | Since 2018/19, the Income and Expenses Guarantee is a payment based on the historic revenue of a practice under the General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements 2017/18 for its Analogous Global Sum (AGS), and is essentially designed to protect those income levels. | |
| IncomeAndExpensesGuaranteeQF | text | Qualifer for IncomeAndExpensesQuarantee | |
| DirectEnhancedServices | text | (DES) Services that Health Boards must ensure are provided for patients within their area. These can include services such as flu immunisations, childhood immunisations and minor surgery. Health Boards are legally obliged to commission all DESs. Individual practices, however, do not have to agree to undertake this work. | |
| DirectEnhancedServicesQF | text | Qualifier for DirectEnhancedServices | |
| NationalEnhancedServices | text | (NES) Services which Health Boards may seek to commission within their area, include anti-coagulant monitoring, intra partum care, minor injuries, IUCD fitting, drug and alcohol misuse. | |
| NationalEnhancedServicesQF | text | Qualifier for NationalEnhancedServices | |
| LocalEnhancedServices | text | (LES) Services which are commissioned by Health Boards and are locally negotiated. They are intended to be services provided in response to specific local needs or innovations that are being piloted, such as methadone administration as part of drugs misuse services. | |
| LocalEnhancedServicesQF | text | Qualifier for LocalEnhancedServices | |
| QualityAndOutcomesFramework | text | Prior to 2016/17, payments to practices under the Quality and Outcomes Framework, consisting of a previous year's balancing payment and a current year's aspiration payment. In 2016/17 the Quality & Outcomes Framework (QOF) was decommissioned, with all points retired and funding transferred to practice core funding. From 2016/17, QOF data was no longer extracted for payment purposes and these payments are associated with Transitional Quality Arrangements. | |
| QualityAndOutcomesFrameworkQF | text | Qualifier for QualityAndOutcomesFramework | |
| QualityTransitionalArrangements | text | In 2016/17, the Quality & Outcomes Framework (QOF) was decommissioned and Transitional Quality Arrangements (TQA) were introduced during 2016/17. These involve GP practices grouping together to form locally agreed clusters of practices. | |
| QualityTransitionalArrangementsQF | text | Qualifier for QualityTransitionalArrangements | |
| QualityPayments | text | In 2017/18, funding was provided for quality leads sessions in the new Transitional Quality Arrangements. | |
| QualityPaymentsQF | text | Qualifier for QualityPayments | |
| TotalQualityArrangements | text | The new GMS contract came into effect from the 1st April 2018, these payments are associated with Transitional Quality Arrangements. | |
| TotalQualityArrangementsQF | text | Qualifier for TotalQualityArrangements | |
| Premises | text | Payments to practices who provide their own premises. | |
| PremisesQF | text | Qualifier for Premises | |
| Seniority | text | Payments to a contractor in respect of individual GPs to reward experience, based on years of Reckonable Service | |
| SeniorityQF | text | Qualifier for Seniority | |
| OtherPayments | text | Items not covered by the other types of payments. | |
| OtherPaymentsQF | text | Qualifier for OtherPayments | |
| OptedOutServices | text | A reduction in global sum where the practice does not provide additional services, such as Child Health Surveillance. | |
| OptedOutServicesQF | text | Qualifier for OptedOutServices | |
| 17CPayments | text | Where possible, the same breakdown of income as shown for GMS practices is given for Section 17C practices; where not possible only the total income is listed. | |
| 17CPaymentsQF | text | Qualifier for 17CPayments | |
| 2CPayments | text | Balance of the costs to the NHS Boards of providing services through 2C practices. This has been provided by the NHS Boards and is not recorded on the General Practice Payment System. | |
| 2CPaymentsQF | text | Qualifier for 2CPayments | |
| TotalPayments | numeric | The total of the above, which is the total of payments for Primary Medical Services to each contractor, before deductions for pension contributions and levy payments. | |
| DispensingDoctorPayments | text | This payment is for reimbursement of drugs and fees paid to practices that are required to provide dispensing services for their patients. It is included here to facilitate reconciliation of total payments to those practices. | |
| DispensingDoctorPaymentsQF | text | Qualifier for DispensingDoctorPayments |
Additional Information
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| Data last updated | January 20, 2021 |
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