GP practices in one area are losing £31,000 on average due to NHS England ‘cleansing’ patient lists, a process which seems to have affected deprived practices the most, a large LMC has warned. 

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (BBO) LMCs said that the exercise, whereby thousands of patients have been deducted from GP practices’ lists, has created an ‘unexpected and disproportionate’ loss of funding which posed an ‘existential threat’ to GP practices, and it will ‘inevitably pose a risk of harm’ to vulnerable patients. 

Read more – Management in Practice (18/6/26)