NHS England has officially scrapped the ‘golden handshake’ GP recruitment scheme, citing a ‘need to prioritise budgets’. 

The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS), which incentivises GP trainees to work in under-doctored areas, will not be funded in 2025/26, a decision which NHS England said it had not ‘taken lightly’. 

Read more – Management in Practice (17/2/25)