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General Practitioners: Finance

Asked by Tom HayesLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 23 January 2025UIN 25071

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when will the allocation of GP funding for 2025-26 be published.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

In December 2024 we announced a proposed funding uplift for general practices (GPs) in 2025/26 of £889 million, representing a 7.2% cash growth, estimated to be an approximately 4.8% real terms growth. This is the largest uplift to GP funding since 2019 and means that we are reversing the recent trend, with a rising share of total National Health Service resources going to GPs.

We started consulting with the General Practitioners Committee in England, of the British Medical Association, on the 2025/26 GP Contract on 19 December 2024, and will consider all proposed policy changes alongside the funding uplift. The final changes will be announced in the usual way following the close of the consultation in 2025.

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