Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62108

General Practitioners: Finance

Tabled: 23 June 2025
Answered: 7 July 2025

Question

Sarah Gibson

Liberal DemocratChippenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of GP funding relative to the proportion of NHS patient contact delivered in primary care.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The Carr-Hill formula, which underpins capitation payments to general practices (GPs), is designed to ensure that resources are directed to practices based on an estimate of their patient workload and unavoidable practice costs.It is a workload-based form...

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