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Ben talks to Maureen Baker, Chair of the RCGP and Megan Stodel, Senior Research Officer at the RCGP on the financial analysis they undertook on the GP Forward View. The discussion unpacks some of the headline financial commitments in the GPFV and tries to establish how much will be coming to who and when.

Show Notes

The RCGP undertakes a financial analysis of the GP Forward View (43secs)

A commitment of £2.4bn for general practice recurrently (2mins 15secs)

Why have cuts to the service at the same time as increasing funding (3mins 02secs)

How much of the increase will appear in the core contract? (4mins 24secs)

Ongoing discussions year-on-year (5mins 53secs)

Understanding the capital funding (6mins 36secs)

Even more money available from the transformation funds? (8mins 05secs)

GP ambassadors identified for each of the STP areas (11mins 14secs)

Will some of the money only be available to practices working at scale? (12mins 21secs)

Is there a risk in the MCP contract framework that general practice money might go to other services? (14mins 18secs)

The role of CCGs in developing general practice (15mins 23secs)

The impact of Brexit (16mins 29secs)

What more do we know about the allocation of funding since the GPFV was published? (18mins 05secs)

Finding the RCGP analysis – and questioning it (19mins 30secs)

The RCGP financial analysis of the GPFV can be found here