
Ep 93: GPs in Welly Boots: The lives of Rural GPs with Mazars’ Andy Pow and Rural GPs
Medics Money podcast
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GP Funding in Rural Areas
In 2004, when the last situation of the GP contract came out prior to that, you had something called the Red Book. That was a fee per work done basis. And one of those fees was temporary resident work. Since that point in time, that figure has never been inflated. The global sum has gone up from something like 48 quid to now close to 100 pounds. Temporary resident funding is exactly the same as it was back in 2004. No inflation, no activity change. So it's really over time dwindled. I think one of the things you will find differently from an urban and a rural area is that sense of community that still exists in rural villages. Everyone does know each
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