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How to apply for direct reimbursement
Notifying the start or end of employment
Submitting claims and receiving payments
Practice staff employed by health authorities in health centres
Under the practice staff scheme, GPs can claim payment for a wide range of staff, including doctors, managers, administrative, secretarial and nursing staff, physiotherapists, chiropodists, dieticians, counsellors, linkworkers and translators. The practice staff scheme was extended to include salaried doctors who satisfied the eligibility criteria. (See box).
| The salaried doctors scheme
This scheme enables those GPs who do meet the list size criteria for employing assistants to nevertheless employ a salaried doctor. It is intended to be sufficiently flexible to cover a variety of local circumstances. Health authorities and GP practices can consider a range of employment options including short fixed term contracts.
The salaried doctor should provide the normal range of general medical services. |
There is no limit on the number of staff for which a GP can claim reimbursement and no bar on reimbursing the costs of employing relatives and dependents.
The health authority is required to publish a policy on the use of its
cash limited resources for practice staff, which informs GPs of priorities and the likelihood of a particular post attracting reimbursement. The health needs of patients must be a key factor in determining how its resources are allocated.
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| Book Title: Making Sense of The Red Book | ||