Nick Bostock

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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

The RCGP told me that the focus needs to shift to practical implementation now, and that GPs basically need clarity on some key points, which patient groups and clinical pathways should be prioritized.

how care will be redesigned around patients' needs, how neighborhood working will improve continuity, coordination, and outcomes.

Another key point the college made was that neighborhoods won't work unless they're built around a strong, sustainable model and the in GP practices and the continuity they provide.

So there's a warning there about the need to invest in existing general practice as the base to build from.

The government said it will consult on neighbourhood contracts this summer.

But previous deadlines have come and gone, so we'll have to wait and see whether this one's any different.

In the context of a potential new Prime Minister, potential new Health and Social Care Secretary, for example, is there a chance that deadline could slip given we're already halfway through July?

But in any case, that summer deadline is only for a draft version for consultation.

Consultation might then run for two or three months and then changes need to be made, talks have to take place to finalise them.

And one lawyer I spoke to suggests it might not be possible in the end to get those contracts ready by the start of the next financial year, so by April 2027.

So they could still be a fair ways off.

In terms of what they'll look like, again, we'll have to wait and see, but there's been speculation about what single neighbourhood contracts.

contracts could mean for local enhanced services, which are a key part of general practice income.

Will those contracts strip out funding that currently goes direct to individual practices and shift it to a larger scale model?

And what would that mean for the sustainability of existing practices?

So some big questions around how all this will play out.

So far, Kent and Medway is the only area to have requested a variation to the network contract des and to have had that approved.

So we we've been trying to find out whether other areas were likely to follow suit anytime soon.

I spoke to lawyers of a couple of firms, Hempsons and DOR solicitors.

And they told me that they were aware of PCNs that had started talks with their ICBs about potential variation to the DES, but that they weren't aware of any that had gone further than that and actually progressed to, you know, formally submitting a request to NHS England to make a variation.

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