GP funding correspondence: FOI release

Information requested

Any correspondence (including emails, letters, phone calls, handwritten notes, WhatsApp messages or any other documents) between the BMA Scotland/BMA Scottish general practitioners committee and/or Scottish Government ministers and/or special advisers regarding Global sum payments. Information should include but not be limited to: a detailed timeline (with dates) of any contact between ministers/special advisers and the BMA ; any notes or comments or suggestions offered by ministers or special advisers to the BMA; any advice or comments from ministers/spads suggested to BMA; any directions issued by ministers/spads on actions the BMA should take. Please provide this information between the dates of 8 June 2022 and 8 June 2023 inclusive.

Please provide the same as above, but in relation to the Scottish Government’s cuts to primary care in November 2022. Nicola Sturgeon backs slashing £400m from Scotland’s struggling health services (telegraph.co.uk)

Response

Scottish Government Ministers and special advisors did not communicate with the BMA or Scottish GP Committee between 8 June 2022 and 8 June 2023 regarding global sum payments.

Scottish Government officials meet regularly with BMA officials and the Scottish GP Committee and discussed the contents of circular PCA2023(M)01.

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