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Personal Medical Services (PMS)
This section contains the most up-to-date guidance and legislation documents relating to PMS. For more detailed background information on PMS and the new primary care contracting arrangements, as well as a wide range of practical resources to support implementation, go to the new joint DH, NatPaCT and NPDT site on primary care contracting.
Guidance on Non-GMS Contracting Arrangements for 2006/07
The purpose of this guidance is to support PCTs and SHAs (where they are the commissioners of PMS) to secure similar benefits to those achieved through the General Medical Services (GMS) contract for 2006/07, from local Personal Medical Services (PMS) and Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contracts for the provision of primary medical care services.
PMS agreement 2004
The National Association of Primary Care has been commissioned by the Department of Health to produce this document.
Guidance
Sustaining innovation through new PMS arrangements
This document sets out guidance for Personal Medical Services (PMS) providers, Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities. It explains how PMS has changed since 1st April 2004. NB: Para 6.13 (OOH - opt out price for PMS) was replaced in August 2004.
NHS Primary Care Contracting website
Specialist Provider Medical Services (SPMS)
Questions and answers.
Enhanced services
Enhanced services are services not provided through essential or additional services, or essential and additional services delivered to a higher specified standard. They were negotiated into the GMS contract as a key tool to help PCTs reduce demand on secondary care. Their main purposes are to expand the range of local services to meet local need, improve convenience and choice, and ensure value for money. They were designed to provide a major opportunity to expand and develop primary care, and give practices greater flexibility and the ability to control their workload.
Finance: New GMS contract - PMS version of 2004/05 indicative budget-setting tool for PCTs
The attached Microsoft Excel spreadsheet shows the funding streams that PMS practices will access under the new contract. The attached note provides a step by step guide on completing the tool. It should be read in conjunction with the supporting detailed PMS guidance.
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