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NHS Payments to General Practice, England 2024/25, Management Information

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Publication Date:
26 Mar 2026
Geographic Coverage:
England
Date Range:
01 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2025

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Executive Summary

Removal of PCN Payment Categories

In June 2023, a change was made in the recording of payments to PCN’s. These payments are now attributed to the PCN rather than a nominated practice within each PCN.  As a result, we are unable to identify the practices that these PCN payments should be attributed to from our existing dataset and have had to remove PCN Leadership, PCN Support, PCN Workforce, PCN Care Home Premium, PCN Extended Hours Access, PCN Investment and Impact Fund and PCN Enhanced Access payment categories from the 2024/25 report. PCN Participation payments, which relate to all practices taking up membership of a PCN, are not affected by this change as they are paid directly to a GP Practice and are included in all tables, averages and totals. We are working to resolve this for future publications.

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Summary

NHS Payments to General Practice, England 2024/25 provides information on NHS payments to individual providers of general practice services in England. Figures are given for the main payment categories - which include Global Sum, Balance of PMS expenditure, Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) and Local Incentive Schemes.

It is not a record of the amount of money available for direct patient care, nor the total invested in patient care through general practice. Instead, it constitutes the majority of actual monies paid to practices for all activities and costs during the 2024/25 financial year.

The pandemic affected the way General Practice operated from 2020/21 and placed additional responsibilities on GP practices for which they received additional payments. From 2020/21 the report includes three additional categories for COVID-19 related payments, COVID-19 Support and Expansion, COVID-19 Immunisation and Long Covid.

Highlights

£5,118.9 million

for Global Sum

£1,822.1 million

for Balance of PMS Expenditure

£922.9 million

for premises payments

£917.9 million

for the Quality and Outcomes Framework

Nationally the NHS paid on average £178.88 per registered patient

Average payments per patient at Sub-ICB, region or national level should be treated with caution as some patients may be double-counted – for example due to practice closure. Conversely, no information relating to patient list size is known for 126 practices.

 

Average payment per patient amounts should not be compared with those presented prior to the 2018/19 edition of this publication due to a change in methodology in 2018/19. Revised amounts at England level for 2016/17 and 2017/18 have been calculated and are presented in the Executive Summary.

 

Please refer to the Patient List Size in the Data Quality section for more detail.

Last edited: 26 March 2026 9:31 am