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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
EXCLUSIVE GP practices are refusing to sign up to new premises leases which would see their fees hiked by up to '400%', Pulse has learned.
Several GP practices are now challenging new leases proposed to them by NHS Property Services, which supposedly reflect the rates the premises would fetch on the open market.
One LMC said practices received new leases from PropCo which would see total fees including rent, services charges and facilities management rise by almost 400%.
But PropCo said just a small part of the increase was actually based on the rent recalculation - in fact only amounting to 14% - and the biggest difference was that GPs now receive their full bill and have to recoup the cost from NHS England, rather than as in the past it being picked up by the Primary Care Trust.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-pr...crease-in-premises-costs/20033162.fullarticle
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Several GP practices are now challenging new leases proposed to them by NHS Property Services, which supposedly reflect the rates the premises would fetch on the open market.
One LMC said practices received new leases from PropCo which would see total fees including rent, services charges and facilities management rise by almost 400%.
But PropCo said just a small part of the increase was actually based on the rent recalculation - in fact only amounting to 14% - and the biggest difference was that GPs now receive their full bill and have to recoup the cost from NHS England, rather than as in the past it being picked up by the Primary Care Trust.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-pr...crease-in-premises-costs/20033162.fullarticle
(free registration)