Practices will only be reimbursed for PPE recommended by Public Health England

[Northerner]

GP practices who have paid for PPE out of their own funds will only be reimbursed for any kit that is recommended for use by Public Health England.

Final details of the funding that practices will receive for additional costs they have incurred during the pandemic is currently waiting for approval from the Treasury.

During a webinar last Thursday (7 May), NHS England director of primary care contracts Ed Waller said that he expected that practices would ‘be reimbursed for additional consumables or business expenses, 'for example around PPE, or changing business models to do home visits'.

However he said that NHS England would not reimburse practices for 'non-regulation PPE'. He said the whole funding scheme would be set up 'on the basis of the guidance that's been given to the system'.

'So in the case of PPE, the expectation is that we reimburse PPE expenses in line with what PHE is recommended,' he explained.

Practices will only be reimbursed for PPE recommended by Public Health England

GP practices who have paid for PPE out of their own funds will only be reimbursed for any kit that is recommended for use by Public Health England.

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Sounds like penny pinching to me

 

[trophywench]

Sounds bloody sensible to me Alan. I know nothing about what they were told they could/should have and I'd need to know how that compared to what they'd accessed and were claiming re-imbursement for, to pass judgment.

 

[Northerner]

Sounds bloody sensible to me Alan. I know nothing about what they were told they could/should have and I'd need to know how that compared to what they'd accessed and were claiming re-imbursement for, to pass judgment.

The problem is that they've had to source a great deal of it themselves because of government inability to supply it, so I think it's perfectly fair that the government should pay for whatever they've managed to get hold of. If the stockpile had been properly maintained then fair enough, but it appears that it was barely looked at over the 10 years since it was set up

 

[trophywench]

Gov aren't saying they won't do that Alan - only if they accessed PPE which was OTT, eg that normally only worn in intensive care or operating theatres rather than what NHS assessed would be OK for GP surgery use.

 

[Northerner]

Gov aren't saying they won't do that Alan - only if they accessed PPE which was OTT, eg that normally only worn in intensive care or operating theatres rather than what NHS assessed would be OK for GP surgery use.

It strikes me that they might have had little choice to use whatever they could get hold of, given the chaos