Responding to the announcement that the BMA’s GP committee has voted to accept the proposed contract for 2025-26, Andy Pow, adviser to the board of the Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants (AISMA), said:
“Practices in England will be relieved to hear that funds will be available to cover staff cost uplifts from 1 April 2025 and will welcome the sizeable increase in the global sum. However, the devil will be in the detailed announcements to come and, since the majority of the extra money is going into the global sum, there will be the usual winners and losers among practices.
“We also need to understand how the funding to cover National Insurance cost increases will work for primary care networks (PCNs).
“Practices and PCNs need to plan their finances for the year ahead as a matter of urgency, so the full funding announcement can’t come soon enough.
“Governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales need to act fast to address the wage cost issues for the practices in their countries.”