Scottish Statement of Financial Entitlements …

1 Scottish Statement of Financial Entitlements 2017 /18 SFE 2017 /18 1 GMS Statement OF Financial Entitlements 2017 /18 Scottish Statement of Financial Entitlements 2017 /18 SFE 2017 /18 2 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 6 Part 1 Global Sum and Minimum Practice Income Guarantee 8 2. Global Sum Payments 8 Calculation of a contractor s first Initial Global Sum Monthly Payment. 8 Calculation of Adjusted Global Sum Monthly Payments. 9 First Payable Global Sum Monthly Payment. 10 Revision of Payable Global Sum Monthly Payments. 10 Conditions attached to Payable Global Sum Monthly Payments. 12 Vaccines and Immunisations.

2 12 3. Minimum Practice Income Guarantee 13 Calculation of Global Sum Equivalent. 13 Calculation of Correction Factor Monthly Payments. 14 Review and revision of Correction Factor Monthly Payments in respect of Financial year 2013/14 and Financial years thereafter. 15 Practice mergers or splits. 16 Conditions attached to payment of Correction Factor Monthly Payments. 17 Part 2 Quality and Outcomes Framework 18 4. Transitional Quality Arrangements 18 Transitional Quality Arrangements 18 Time commitment 18 Payment 18 Role of GP practice and PQL 19 Lack of participation 19 Part 3 Directed Enhanced Services 20 5. Childhood Immunisations Scheme 20 Childhood Immunisations Scheme plans.

3 20 Target payments in respect of two-year-olds. 20 Calculation of Quarterly Two-Year-Olds Immunisation Payment. 21 Conditions attached to Quarterly Two-Year-Olds Immunisation Payments. 24 Target payments in respect of five-year-olds. 25 Calculation of Quarterly Five-Year-Olds Immunisation Payment. 25 Conditions attached to Quarterly Five-Year-Olds Immunisation Payments. 27 Part 4 Payments for Specific Purposes 29 6. Pneumococcal Vaccination, HIB/MenC Booster Vaccination and Rotavirus Vaccination 29 Payment for administration of PCV vaccinations and HiB/MenC vaccinations as part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule.

4 29 Payment for administration of PCV vaccinations other than as part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule. 30 Children at increased risk of pneumococcal infection. 30 Children over the age of 13 months but under 5 years who have previously had invasive pneumococcal disease. 33 Children with an unknown or incomplete vaccination status. 33 Eligibility for payment. 33 Claims for payment. 34 Conditions attached to payment. 35 Scottish Statement of Financial Entitlements 2017 /18 SFE 2017 /18 3 Rotavirus (Rotarix) Vaccine. 36 7. Payments for locums covering maternity, paternity and adoption leave 39 entitlement to payments for covering ordinary maternity, paternity and adoption leave 39 Ceilings on the amounts payable.

5 40 Payment arrangements. 40 Conditions attached to the amounts payable. 41 8. Payments for locums covering sickness leave 42 entitlement to payments for covering sickness leave. 42 Ceilings on the amounts payable. 43 Payment arrangements. 44 Conditions attached to the amounts payable. 44 9. Payments for locums to cover for suspended doctors 47 Eligible cases. 47 Ceilings on the amounts payable. 48 Payment arrangements. 48 Conditions attached to the amounts payable. 48 10. Payments in respect of Prolonged Study Leave 50 Types of study in respect of which Prolonged Study Leave may be taken. 50 The Educational Allowance Payment.

6 50 Locum cover in respect of doctors on Prolonged Study Leave. 50 Payment arrangements. 51 Conditions attached to the amounts payable. 51 11. Seniority Payments 53 Eligible posts. 53 Service that is Reckonable Service. 53 Calculation of years of Reckonable Service. 54 Determination of the relevant dates. 56 Calculation of the full annual rate of Seniority Payments. 56 Superannuable Income Fractions. 58 Amounts payable. 59 Conditions attached to payment of Quarterly Seniority Payments. 59 12. Golden Hello Scheme 61 Conditions attached to all Golden Hello Payments 61 Payments for practices with recruitment difficulties under the Golden Hello Scheme 62 Payment for remoteness, rurality and deprivation under the Golden Hello Scheme 62 Job Sharers 63 Changes in circumstances 63 Relocation costs 65 Recruitment costs 65 Rates of payment.

7 65 13. Payment of Fees to Doctors Under Section 47 of Part 5 of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. 66 Where an independent health professional seeks confirmation that a certificate of incapacity is in force 66 Where a general practitioner is requested by an independent health professional to carry out an assessment 66 14. Doctors Retainer Scheme 67 Scottish Statement of Financial Entitlements 2017 /18 SFE 2017 /18 4 Payments in respect of sessions undertaken by members of the Scheme 67 Provisions in respect of leave arrangements 67 Payment conditions. 68 15. Dispensing 69 Transitional Arrangements.

8 71 Claims. 72 Payments On Account. 72 Examination Of Prescription Forms. 72 Accounting. 73 Payments for the provision of flu vaccines. 73 Paragraph 15/Schedule 1: Discount Scale 74 Paragraph 15/Schedule 2: Fee Scale 76 Paragraph 15/Schedule 3: Address for Claims 78 Paragraph 15/ Schedule 4: List of Vaccines 78 Part 5 Payments for other purposes 79 16. Premises 79 17. IT Expenses 79 18. Occupational Health 79 19. Provision of Emergency Oxygen 79 20. Appraisal Premium 80 21. Workforce Survey Payment 80 Part 6 Supplementary Provisions 81 22. Administrative Provisions 81 Overpayments and withheld amounts. 81 Underpayments and late payments.

9 81 Payments on account. 82 Payments to or in respect of suspended doctors whose suspension ceases. 83 Effect on periodic payments of termination of a GMS contract. 83 Time limitation for claiming payments. 84 Dispute resolution procedures. 84 Protocol in respect of locum cover payments. 84 Adjustment of Contractor Registered Populations. 85 23. Pension Scheme Contributions 87 Health Boards responsibilities in respect of contractors employer s and employee s pension contributions 87 Monthly deductions in respect of pension contributions 88 End-year adjustments. 89 Locums. 90 A Annex A Glossary 92 B Annex B The Scottish Allocation Formula (SAF) for General Medical Services 99 C Annex C Temporary Patients Adjustment 103 D Annex D Core Standard Payment 104 E Annex E List of Practices for which Payments are Payable under the Golden Hello Scheme 106 F Annex F Scottish Immunisation Programme General Practice Elements109 G Annex G Vaccines and Immunisations 111 Scottish Statement of Financial Entitlements 2017 /18 SFE 2017 /18 5 Table 1 - Adjusted Global Sum Monthly Payments.

10 9 Table 2 - Quarterly TYOIP .. 24 Table 3 - Routine Childhood Immunisation Schedule .. 30 Table 4 - Pneumococcal Clinical Risk Groups for Children .. 31 Table 5 - Years of Reckonable Service .. 57 Table 6 - Golden Hello rates .. 65 Table 7 - Appropriate Level of Special 71 Table 8 - Discount Scale .. 74 Table 9 - Dispensing Fees .. 76 Table 10 - Demographic Weightings .. 100 Table 11 - Weighted Lists Illustrated Example .. 101 Table 12 - GP Practices Located on Islands in Scotland .. 107 Table 13 - Vaccines to delivered in GP practices .. 109 Table 14 - Vaccines and immunisations not required for foreign travel.