Health written question – answered at on 16 January 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) mean average, (b) largest and (c) smallest global sum payment made to GP practices was in each of the last 10 years; and what proportion of average GP practice allocation was derived from the global sum element in each such year.
Global sum payments were introduced in 2004-05 as part of the new General Medical Services contract and are calculated by the NHS Applications and Infrastructure Service (NHAIS).
The information requested, based on NHAIS data, is set out as follows:
Mean global sum (£) | Largest global sum (£) | Smallest global sum (£) | Average global sum income as percentage of total practice NHS income (%) | |
2004-05 | 314,613 | 1,361,633 | 76 | 52 |
2005-06 | 326,310 | 1,760,056 | 73 | 47 |
2006-07 | 336,340 | 1,548,595 | 58 | 46 |
2007-08 | 339,665 | 1,518,353 | 68 | 45 |
2008-09 | 353,766 | 1,613,154 | 22 | 46 |
2009-10 | 397,674 | 2,117,667 | 26 | 49 |
2010-11 | 405,450 | 1,805,289 | 26 | 51 |
2011-12 | 415,795 | 2,446,096 | 65 | 51 |
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