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GPs will only have their surgery rent reimbursement docked if they undertake ?huge levels? of private work, under a change to premises rules that accountants claim could allow practices to significantly expand their non-NHS activities.
New premises directions which come into effect this month remove from NHS managers the responsibility to check GP private income levels - a responsibility described by the Department of Health this week as an ?ineffectual bureaucratic burden?.
Under the previous rules, GP practices earning more than 10% of their income from private work had their rent reimbursement from the NHS docked.
The DH denied that the removal of this stipulation from the new premises directions was a signal for GPs to do extra private work, and warned that if NHS England discovered a practice had ?high levels of private income? then their rent reimbursement was likely to be reduced.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20002582.article#.UWaJuLW2aSo
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New premises directions which come into effect this month remove from NHS managers the responsibility to check GP private income levels - a responsibility described by the Department of Health this week as an ?ineffectual bureaucratic burden?.
Under the previous rules, GP practices earning more than 10% of their income from private work had their rent reimbursement from the NHS docked.
The DH denied that the removal of this stipulation from the new premises directions was a signal for GPs to do extra private work, and warned that if NHS England discovered a practice had ?high levels of private income? then their rent reimbursement was likely to be reduced.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20002582.article#.UWaJuLW2aSo
(free registration required)