Scrapping capacity and access payments to create a practice-level GP recruitment fund risks overshadowing any benefit to practices from the overall £485m funding uplift in the 2026/27 GP contract ...

GP practices will have to provide same-day access to urgent patients and face new QOF targets on obesity and diabetes under the 2026/27 GP contract.

The cash uplift promised in the 2026/27 GP contract will leave practices 'treading water', while plans to strip £292m from ...

General practice will be handed £292m stripped from PCNs to fund practice-level GP recruitment - and additional roles ...

GP funding will rise by £485m in 2026/27 under an updated contract package revealed by the government - with around £300m ...

GPs and GP registrars across England will be asked to vote in a referendum on the GMS contract package for 2026/27 ...

The leader of the BMA England GP committee is facing a call to step down over the collapse in the profession's relationship ...

Emerging neighbourhood models could be derailed if the NHS fails to shift funding out of hospitals to support them, the GP leading England's national neighbourhood health implementation programme ...

GPonline editor Emma Bower and deputy editor Nick Bostock discuss GP contract changes for 2026/27 and how they could affect practices.

Health and social care leaders - including GPs - should not hold off moving care into the community while they wait for guidance on neighbourhood working, government and NHS officials have said.

None of the GP contract updates for 2026/27 outlined so far will help deliver government aims of tackling inequality, moving care out of hospital or prioritising prevention, GP leaders have warned.

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