Managing your practice
The GPC has produced a toolkit for LMCs and practices to help them respond to the English Department of Health's consultation on the future of GP dispensing.
Toolkit for LMCs and all practices in England on GP dispensingFocus on extended access 2008/09 - commencing 1 April 2008 (updated September 2008)
This guidance has been produced by the GPC to help GPs and LMCs understand the changes that have been made to the GMS contract for 2008/09.Seniority payments: England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The GPC, NHS Employers and the Department of Health have agreed the interim seniority figure for 2008/09.Charging patients - FAQs
Includes charging own patients, non-essential services, hepatitis B vaccination with travel and occupational health, private prescriptions and over the counter drugs.Focus on... the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act - August 2008
This guidance has been produced to alert GPs to the details of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, which came into efect on 6 April 2008 and applies to organisations, including NHS bodies across the UK.Involvement with private companies and other health professionals FAQs
Includes renting out surgery premises, payment for work, promoting a private service and working with research companies.Improving care pathways, January 2008
This joint paper discusses how commissioners can assess whether resources and capacity within the NHS are utilised efficiently.Improving communication, the exchange of information and patient care, October 2007
This joint paper produced by the General Practitioners Committee and the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee offers a number of suggestions to improve two-way communication between primary and secondary care practitioners, for the benefit of patients.Safeguarding patient services, maintaining cost-effectiveness, April 2007
This year's DDRB report heralded a second year with no increase in funding to GP practices for the core elements of the contract, despite rising costs and inflation. This guidance identifies a number of measures to help practices with their business planning.Referral management principles, March 2007
The Central Consultants and Specialists Committee and General Practitioners Committee have produced a joint document which aims to set out the key guiding principles of referral management schemes.Dispensary Services Quality Scheme, August 2006
NHS Employers and the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) in consultation with the Dispensing Doctors' Association have now published details of the Dispensary Services Quality Scheme together with guidance to assist practices and PCTs to implement the scheme. It is expected that Directions supporting the scheme will come into place by the start of the autumn.GMS dispensing quality payment scheme SFE amendment, September 2006
SFE amendment for the dispensing quality payment scheme, which comes into force today, 25 September 2006.Focus on funding for the new GMS contract
This guidance note has been produced by the General Practitioners Committee to help GPs and Local Medical Committees understand the funding arrangements for the new GMS contract, and is one of a series of guidance notes on the new contract.Fraudulent registration by patients - June 2006
This guidance has been procued with the assistance of the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service and is relevant to GPs in England and includes details about what practices should do about suspected fraudulent registration.Dispensing Doctors / Contractors and VAT registration
As part of the recently agreed revisions to the GMS contract the Department will no longer pay an allowance to cover the VAT payable on purchases of drugs, appliances and containers to those dispensing doctors who are not registered for VAT with the HMRC.Important notice for dispensing GPs in England and Wales, February 2006
Following changes in Department of Health funding, effective from 1 April 2006, dispensing doctors who wish to recover VAT incurred on drugs they dispense will need to register for VAT.Focus on Statement of Financial Entitlements (SFE) changes 2006-07 (England)
This guidance note relates to changes to the SFE in England only, but parts of it are relevant to Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Versions of this note for the other three countries will follow very shortly.Focus on access (England) 2006/07
This focus on guidance note has been produced to help GPs and local medical committees understand the changes and developments t hat have been made to access arrangements, in England, under the gMS contract for 2006-07.Jury service, November 2005
Guidance for medical practitioners summoned for jury service and includes details regarding the changes to the Criminal Justice Act 2003, jury summons, deferral and discretionary excusal, making a robust case for deferment or discretionary excusal and the right to appeal.Removal of patients from GP lists, April 2005
This guidance is an updated version of guidance first issued in June 1999, and includes public perception of removals and the general practitioners committee's advice.Focus on patient registration
This guidance on patient registration includes closed lists and full lists - the right not to register new patients.Mapping of payments to new contract income streams, April 2003
Details of where payments have been mapped to under the new contractFocus on sale of goodwill
This guidance note has been produced by the General Practitioners Committee to help GPs and Local Medical Committees with decisions about whether to take advantage of new Regulations in relation to trading in goodwillFundraising for GP practices
Guidance for GPs when individual patients and organisations seek to support the work of GP practices through the purchase of equipment or fundraising activities.