About this episode

Experts discuss the key elements of the Scottish GP contract and practice finance.

This episode (originally from the GP Practice Finance Course) features Scottish experts Dawn Laird and Colin Malone from Forvis Mazars explaining key elements of the Scottish GP contract and practice finance. They outline NHS Health Board income streams shown on monthly statements, including global sum (the largest), enhanced services, reimbursements, and deductions for seniority and superannuation. They describe how the Scottish workload formula values patients (especially by age, plus uplifts for new registrations and care homes) and note trends of rolling income into global sum, plus Scottish Government plans for £148m recurring funding by 2028–29 focused on workforce, locum cover reimbursement from day one, expense reimbursement, cloud-based telephony, and health inequalities. They review major costs (staffing and premises), practice structures (partnerships, LLPs, limited companies and superannuation implications), premises loans and grants, superannuation processes and opting out considerations, seniority rules, and pension administration via SPPA Engage, McCloud remedy statements, benefit statement timing, and retirement options. 00:00 Welcome and Course Intro 00:47 Meet…

People in this episode

Guests: Dawn Laird, Colin Malone

Topics covered

• Scottish GP contract
• practice finance
• NHS income streams
• workload formula
• funding changes
• superannuation
• practice structures

Keywords

• GP contract
• Scottish NHS
• income streams
• global sum
• superannuation
• practice finance
• funding
• workload formula
• health inequalities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Forvis Mazars, NHS, Scottish Government, SPPA Engage

Places: Scotland

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