Kimberley Hackett

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Talking General Practice · Is the 10-year plan on track, GP premises challenges, job shortage for new GPs · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

In addition, funding will be available to practices based on their list sizes, and then there are some further payments based on the number of frail people at the practice.

Now, if at the end of the year the projected growth.

growth of hospital A and E admissions among the frailty cohort has reduced, then practices will also be given extra money.

So she was speaking at the um Company Chemists Association conference, and uh she was talking about how NHS England is looking into how estates can be used to support neighborhood models.

And she seemed to suggest that there is more free or empty space in general practice than people realize that could be used for out-of-hospital care.

So she started off by saying that there is twice as much for.

Or space in GP practices and associated services than they need.

She then went on to paint a really interesting picture that general practices are really busy between 8:30 a.m.

and 11am, and then between 3:30 pm to 6:30 p.m., Mondays to Thursdays.

Then she said that outside of those hours, GPs are often out of their practices doing patient.

Visits.

Therefore, the practice space isn't being used, and by de facto, as she puts it, practices aren't full up.

But she didn't stop there.

Her point was that if there is going to be investment in new or refurbished facilities for neighbourhood health and out-of-hospital care, then

the money has to be used in an efficient way and she believes that staff need to think differently about how they manage space in general practice.

She said, you know, if if you spend a day in general practice just observing the going ons, then there is actually more space for extra staff than it may seem in the first place.

Yeah, so her comments were put to GP leaders during a House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee meeting that was specifically about estates and delivering a neighbourhood health service.

Probably comes as no surprise that the panel were not in agreement with Dr.

Dash.

One of the panel experts said they were flabbergasted by the comments and that it actually made her quite cross that such a picture of general practice was being portrayed.

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