Tools
Enhanced services quick calculator →
Estimate the break-even cost to your practice of a task requested by the board, using BMA SGPC 2026/27 pay rates.
Interface template letters →
Pre-drafted letters for declining work inappropriately transferred from secondary care, aligned with the Lothian interface agreement.
Is it my job? →
A quick decision guide to whether a request falls within GMS essential services — with the interface rules in plain English.
Shared care decision tool →
Work through the six questions from our guidance for any shared care request — NHS or private — and generate a documented record of the decision.
Guidance
LMC guidance documents →
Guidance from the LMC office with a plain-English summary of each — currently covering enhanced services 2026/27, shared care agreements and private providers.
BMA SGPC guidance at a glance →
The three national SGPC documents — safe workload, practice profitability and sustainable working — summarised on one page: the key limits, benchmarks and where to start.
Explainers
How General Practice is funded →
The global sum and workload formula, where the money is spent, and what the NHS gets for it — with Lothian data throughout.
For patientsWhat’s happening to your GP practice? →
A plain-English explainer designed for practices to share with their patients — why access feels harder, how practices are funded, and what would actually fix it.
Analysis & debate
The quiet normalisation of paying for healthcare →
Private healthcare use is rising fast and paying is starting to feel normal. What the evidence shows, two honest readings of it, and the questions general practice should start thinking about. A discussion piece — deliberately reaching no verdict.
Why we oppose the expansion of walk-in centres →
Forty centres are now planned. The evidence from England, what Scotland’s own activity data shows, the cost to continuity and equity — and what the money could do instead.
From the website
BMA Scotland GP blog
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