Securing NHS funding for your new GP surgery – how to start the ball rolling
CATEGORY: NEW GP SURGERY BUILDS AND EXTENSIONSAUTHOR: BRYAN WOOTTENDATE: FEBRUARY 2024 One thing that I’ve learnt meeting with Practice managers over the past 18 years is just how busy you all are! In the midst of this busyness, the need for more space and a better...
Notional Rent: The benefit of appealing your notional rent assessment
Market valuation: The key pitfalls when taking valuation advice
GPs and surgery ownership – are incoming GPs between a rock and a hard place?
Regular readers of my blog will know that the issue of GP surgery ownership is one which I have referred to previously, with the pros and cons of both ‘Sale and Leaseback’ transactions and GP ‘owner occupation’ having recently been considered. The reason for this is...
Rent reimbursement is NHS England correct in it’s attempts to claw back funding from GP practices?
The 2013 Premises Directions issued by the Department of Health introduced a number of changes which have had a significant impact on Rent reimbursement to GP practices. This was coupled with an apparent change in culture from the NHS with regard to rent reimbursement...
Sale and Leaseback – can you have your cake and eat it?
Readers of my recent blogs will be aware that an increasing number of GP Surgeries are now occupied under occupational leases. Sale and leaseback transactions have been a significant factor in this transition from owner occupied GP surgeries to leased premises....
Primary Healthcare Property – why is it so popular ?
Scarcely a day goes by without a headline in the media about the latest funding crisis in the NHS and many commentators would agree that the financial pressures on the NHS are notably acute at this time. In this context, the news (confirmed by the results of the IPD...
GP surgeries: The Drift Towards Leasehold Occupation
GP surgeries: the drift towards leasehold occupation. Most GP practises have historically been owner occupiers of their surgery premises. Whilst it is still the case that a significant number of practices remain owner occupiers, over the past 20 years there has...
Small is beautiful?
Small is beautiful? Not if you want a new GP surgery It is reasonable to assume that just about all small to medium sized GP practices will be only too aware of the operational and financial challenges of operating within the primary care environment in the current...
GP Surgery Reimbursement Rent – when Cost Rent makes a difference
Most GP practices who are owner occupiers of their surgery premises will be reimbursed on a notional rent basis which involves assessment of the market rent of the surgery. This is one of the two forms of reimbursement that are available to such GP practices regarding...
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