How does your practice’s NHS funding per patient compare with the Lothian and Scotland averages? All figures are calculated from Public Health Scotland’s published payments data for 2024/25 — this tool reveals nothing that is not already in the public domain.
Global sum per patient
Your practice
Lothian average
£128.61
Scotland average
£139.64
All payments per patient (excluding premises)
Your practice
Lothian average
£170.81
Scotland average
£186.34
Interpret with caution: this practice has a small or atypical registered list, so per-patient figures can be extreme and are not meaningfully comparable with mainstream practices.
Payments are not GP income. These figures are what practices are paid to run the whole service — staff, premises running costs, equipment, insurance and everything else come out of them before any partner is paid.
NHS payments only. These figures include no private sources of income — insurance reports, medico-legal work, non-NHS letters and similar are invisible to this data. For most practices such income is modest (around 1% of the total), but it means the figures here are not a complete picture of practice income.
Premises payments are excluded from the second measure because some practices receive rent reimbursement as income while others have premises managed at source — including them would create false differences. Dispensing payments are not included in PHS total payments.
Differences are mostly the formula working as designed. The Scottish Workload Formula pays more per patient for older, more deprived and more rural populations — see our funding explainer. A practice below the average is not being underpaid relative to its contract; the question of whether the formula itself is right is a separate one.
Small and atypical practices (specialist services, very small lists) produce extreme per-patient values that are not comparable with mainstream practices.
Denominator is each practice’s registered list size as recorded in the payments file. Figures are for the year to 31 March 2025.