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| SFA amendment number and date |
Key changes |
SFA paragraph(s) |
| SFA 1 March 1990 |
•basic practice allowance: list of all partners (including any part-timers) added together to calculate average list size and then distributed according to each GP's commitment irrespective of actual number of patients (presumed to be) on an individual list |
12.5 |
| SFA 1 March 1990 |
•associate doctors: consequential amendments |
24.4d, 29.3, 41.5 |
| SFA 1 March 1990 |
•payments to practitioners who provide (out-of-hours) services on behalf of doctors who have opted out as at 31 March 1990 |
71.1e, 72.2i, 73.1, 75.1, 76.1, 82.1-3 |
| SFA 1 March 1990 |
•correction of printing errors |
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| SFA2 May 1990 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1, 81/Sch 1 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•removal of requirement to name patients when claiming for cervical cytology targets, health promotion clinics, minor surgery sessions |
28.2, 30.3, 42.5, 42.6 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•amendment of example of calculation, maximum sum payable, cervical cytology targets |
28.3 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: |
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| SFA2 May 1990 |
trainer appeals |
38.3-4 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
medical defence organization subscription reimbursement |
38.6e.vi |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•premises: co-operation between professionals |
51.9 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•cost rents: leasehold premises |
51.50.3 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
cost limits |
51/Sch 1-2 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•improvement grants: cost limits |
56/Sch 2 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•reimbursement for health authority attached staff |
52.7 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•computing costs |
58 |
| SFA2 May 1990 |
•appeals procedure where an application or claim has been refused on grounds which include the FHSA's management of its cash limited funds (i.e. practice staff, premises improvements or computer costs) |
80.1-2 |
| SFA 3 September 1990 |
•change in method of calculating target payments from an individual to a partnership list basis |
1/Sch 1, 2, 25, 26, 28 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: additional motor vehicle |
1/Sch 1 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•definitions: committee, FHSA |
2 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•designated areas addition: calculating average list size |
14.3 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•registration fees: deferment provisions etc. |
23 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•night visit fee: payment of higher fee |
24.4.c,d,e,f |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•temporary residents: correction of error |
32.12 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•minor surgery: eligible procedures |
42/Sch 1 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•dispensing doctors: fees |
44/Sch 2,3 |
| SFA 4 January 1991 |
•transitional payments |
83.1-4 |
| SFA 5 April 1991 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: medical defence organization subscription reimbursement |
38.6.e.vi |
| SFA 5 April 1991 |
•changes to the rural practice payments scheme |
43.1-22 |
| SFA 5 April 1991 |
•dispensing doctors: fees |
44/Sch 3 |
| SFA 5 April 1991 |
•locum payments for job sharers |
47, 48, 49, 50, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69, 78 |
| SFA 5 April 1991 |
•rent and rates scheme: amended to take account of VAT on rent and the introduction of the uniform business rate, etc. |
51 |
| SFA 5 April 1991 |
•arrangements in national emergency |
79.1-3 |
| SFA 6 May 1991 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1, 81/Sch 1, 82 |
| SFA 6 May 1991 |
•cost limits |
51/Sch 1, 2, 3, 56/Sch 2 |
| SFA 6 May 1991 |
•night visit fee - amended to remove the three month minimum period for eligibility to the higher fee |
24.4f |
| SFA 7 July 1991 |
•health promotion clinics: greater flexibility in meeting the criterion for payment for approved clinics |
30.2-3 |
| SFA 7 July 1991 |
•minor surgery: |
42.2-3 |
| SFA 7 July 1991 |
carrying forward of a limited number of minor surgery procedures from one quarter to a later one- payment procedures |
42.6-7 |
| SFA 7 July 1991 |
•rural practice payments |
1/Sch 1, 43.20-22 |
| SFA 7 July 1991 |
•dispensing doctors: fees |
44/Sch 3 |
| SFA 7 July 1991 |
• GP computer reimbursement scheme |
58.1-22 |
| SFA 8 September 1991 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: additional motor vehicle |
1/Sch 1 |
| SFA 8 September 1991 |
•transitional payment scheme: revised rates |
83 |
| SFA 9 October 1991 |
•dispensing doctors: fees |
44/Sch 2 |
| SFA 9 October 1991 |
•amendments to cost rent scheme to provide for VAT on self-supply of land |
51 |
| SFA 10 April 1992 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: maternity leave and pay arrangements |
38.32 a-d |
| SFA 10 April 1992 |
•supply of drugs and appliances: Prescription Pricing Division, Wales |
44 |
| SFA 10 April 1992 |
•locum allowance during confinement |
49.3 |
| SFA 10 April 1992 |
•consolidation of the GMPS Regulations 1974 |
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| SFA 10 April 1992 |
•maternity medical services: responsibilities of practitioners and criteria for admission to obstetric list transferred to Regulations |
31/Sch 1, 2 |
| SFA 11 May 1992 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1, 81/Sch 1, 82 |
| SFA 11 May 1992 |
•transitional payments scheme: ended on 31 March 1992 |
83 |
| SFA 12 May 1992 |
•changes to course organizers' pay |
38.5k |
| SFA 12 May 1992 |
•higher night visit fee to be paid when a GP sees his or her own or a partner's patients whilst working for a commercial deputizing service or large rota, and also when the creation of a job share would result in an existing rota of 10 or less breaking the 10 doctor limit |
24.4 |
| SFA 13 August 1992 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: additional motor vehicle |
1/Sch 1 |
| SFA 13 August 1992 |
•seniority allowance: service with Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Warsaw, Moscow, Dhaka, New Delhi |
16.13-14 |
| SFA 13 August 1992 |
•health promotion clinics: moratorium |
30.1-10 |
| SFA 13 August 1992 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: removal expenses |
38.7-23 |
| SFA 13 August 1992 |
•cost limits |
51.52.10-13, 51/Sch 1-3, 56/Sch 2 |
| SFA 14 February 1993 |
•seniority allowance: compulsory retirement at 70 |
16.6-7 |
| SFA 14 February 1993 |
•Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccine item-of-service fee |
27/Sch 1 |
| SFA 14 February 1993 |
•trainee practitioner scheme: allowances |
38/Sch 2 |
| SFA 14 February 1993 |
London Weighting |
1/Sch 1 |
| SFA 14 February 1993 |
•computer costs: continuation of scheme |
58.1 |
| SFA 14 February 1993 |
•maternity medical services: change in definition of stillbirth |
31.4, 31.10, 31.11 |
| SFA 15 September 1993 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1, 81/Sch 1, 82/Sch 1 |
| SFA 15 September 1993 |
•health promotion and chronic disease management programmes: changed arrangements |
30.1-26, 30/Sch 1, 30/Sch 2, 30/Sch 3, 30/Sch 4, 30/Sch 5, 30/Sch 6, 72.2.iii, 73.1-4, 74.1, 74.3, 75.1-2, 75.4-9, 78.3, 78.5, 80.1.2, 80.2.3-5 |
| SFA 15 September 1993 |
•GPs and council tax |
51.13(b) |
| SFA 15 September 1993 |
•cost limits and regional variations |
51/Sch 1, 51/Sch 2, 51/Sch 3, 56/Sch 2 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1, 82/Sch 1 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccine target on payments |
25.2, 25.6, 25.10 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•cervical cytology target payments: continuation of payments based on practitioners' records |
28.7, 28.10 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•health promotion and chronic disease management programmes: changed payment date arrangements |
30.5.i, 30.12, 30.23-24, 75.1 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•postgraduate education allowance: removal of 1990 starting provisions; approval of overseas courses |
37.3, 37.5, 37.7-15 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•dispensing fees |
44/Sch 2 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•additional payments during confinement: jobsharers' absences |
49.1-2, 49.7 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•cost limits and regional variations |
51/Sch 1, 51/Sch 2, 51/Sch 3, 56/Sch 2 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•rent and rate arrangements for practitioners in FHSA-owned accommodation in the London Initiative Zone |
54.1-14 |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•London Initiative Zone improvement grants |
56.3A |
| SFA 16 August 1994 |
•representations |
80.2.3.2 |
| SFA 17 June 1995 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•exclusion of centrally supplied vaccines from reimbursement |
44.5, 44.5.1, 44/Sch 5 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•health promotion: abolition of requirement for in-year progress reports |
30.10.ii |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•GP/FHSA Links: removal of patient signature requirements |
2, 22.6, 29.5, 31.18, 77 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•London Initiative Zone: educational initiatives: extended training within general practice |
38.5 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•dispensing doctors' discount scale rate |
44/Sch 1 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•dispensing fees |
44/Sch 2 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•London Initiative Zone workforce flexibilities |
1/Sch 1, 57.1-22 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•drug-releasing IUCD systems |
29.3, 44.5 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•Patients Not Paper pilot scheme for improved forms |
72.3, 72.6-7 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•deprivation payments: transitional payments scheme |
20.5-9 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•out-of-hours services: out-of-hours development scheme; locum payments for isolated rural GPs |
59.1-8 19.10, 60.1-15 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•health promotion annual report requirements |
30/Sch 6 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•payments during periods for which a practitioner is suspended by direction of the NHSTribunal |
1/Sch 1, 46.1-10 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•cervical cytology target payments: exclusion criteria |
28.2, 28.7, 28.14 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•deprivation payments: transitional payments scheme |
20.10-14 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•fees for involvement in the education of undergraduate medical students: restriction to sessions on or before 31 March 1996 |
40.3 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•course organizers: payment of trainers' grant |
38.5.k |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•computer reimbursement scheme: removal of references to fundholding practices |
58.7, 58.8, 58.10, 58.16 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•replacement of references to FHSAs and District Health Authorities with references to health authorities |
22.2, 25.9-10, 26.9, 28.6.b, 28.13, 38.9, 38.29.a, 38/Sch 1, 51.3.b, 51.17, 51/Sch 3, 52.3-33, 56.3A |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•night payments: changed arrangements |
24.1-13, 75.2 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•extension of London Initiative Zone timescales and change of references to FHSAs and District Health Authorities to health authorities |
54.1-14, 56.1-18, 56/Sch 1 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•claims for reimbursement for high volume personally administered vaccines |
44.5.2 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•health promotion activities and chronic disease management programmes: changed arrangements |
30.1-18, 30/Sch 1, 30/Sch 2, 30/Sch 3, 30/Sch 4 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•cost limits and regional variations |
51/Sch 1, 51/Sch 2, 51/Sch 4, 56/Sch 2 |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•Patients Not Paper: direct payment of business and water rates |
51.13.e |
| SFA 17 1996 edition October 1996 |
•introduction of new claim forms |
72.3-4, 75.10, 75/Sch 1 |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•new fees and allowances based on DDRB award |
1/Sch 1 |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•introduction of second dose of MMR vaccine into pre-school booster immunization programme |
27/Sch 1 |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•arrangements for GP registrars' earnings when last regular post part-time and earnings higher than in last regular full-time post |
38.6.vii |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•high volume personally administered vaccines |
44.7, 44/Sch 6 |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•dispensing feescale |
44/Sch 2 |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•additional payments during confinement: extension of maximum period to 14 weeks |
49.3, 49.8, 49.12 |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•LIZ workforce flexibilities allowances: extension of timescales; arrangements for applications for more than one LIZ allowance |
57.1, 57.5 |
| SFA 18 April 1997 |
•correction of printing errors and cross-references |
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