Primary Care: Buildings
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he has issued guidance to integrated care boards about the funding of notional rent for new or extended premises.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Premises Costs Directions (PCDs) are directions to NHS England from my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in relation to reimbursements of certain costs, incurred by General Medical Services contractors, relating to their practice premises, principally notional rent or rent reimbursement, and some day-to-day running costs. The regulations set out the conditions of contractors’ eligibility for notional rent reimbursement, including considerations when there have been premises development or improvement.
The PCDs also provide a mechanism to fund and deliver general practice premises improvements, in the form of grants from commissioners to build extensions and carry out renovations, subject to discretion and available budget.
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