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Key resources
Premises costs are reimbursed under the Premises Costs Directions, updated in 2024. If your practice is in an NHS Property Services building, start with the BMA’s guidance on service charges.
Rent and funding
Leases and service charges
Links go to BMA, DHSC and NHS England guidance. Some BMA pages may need a member login. Each lease is different, so take advice on your own terms.
Primary care capital grants policy
Boiler Upgrade Scheme grants
Rising energy costs for practices
NHS England premises survey
Practice rental payments
As we reported last week, the issue of some tenants of GP practices either decreasing, or threatening to decrease their rents, was recently raised with GPC. Tenants cannot unilaterally change the existing arrangements without due process and discussions, and to…
NHS Property Service legal action – Update
As many of you will know, the BMA is supporting five GP practices who have started court proceedings against NHS Property Services (NHSPS) to clarify the basis on which NHSPS calculates service charges. Since 2016, many practices have received increasingly…
NHS England Rateable Value Reduction
We have received several queries in relation to the e-mail below concerning the rateable value reduction that may apply to some (not all) practices. We have been assured that this program has been in place for a number of years. …
BMA takes legal action against NHS Property Services
Attached is a letter from Gaurav Gupta, GPC Premises and Practice Finance Policy Lead with an update regarding the BMA’s legal action against NHS Property Services.
Legal action against NHS Property Services
It was announced today that the BMA is launching legal action against NHS Property Services (NHSPS) over “unjustifiable” rises in service charges faced by GP practices. Practices leasing their buildings from NHSPS have seen their charges rise over the last…