In addition to essential services, practices can also provide what are termed Additional services, although each practice can choose to opt out of providing any additional service if they so wish.  Pr [..]

A term used prior to 1st April 2004 to describe a GP employed by a practice to assist in the provision of either general or non-general medical services, or both.

A term used prior to 1st April 2004 to describe a GP employed jointly by two or three single-handed isolated principals in order to allow the opportunity for regular time off and training. In exceptio [..]

A term used prior to 1st April 2004 to describe the average number of registered patients per GP principal, calculated by dividing the number of patients in the practice by the number of principals (f [..]

The average number of registered patients per practice. For example, an average practice list for Scotland is calculated by dividing the number of patients registered with a general practice in Scotla [..]

See GP designations below.

A dispensing practice can dispense medicines to some or all of their patients and receives payments, which include a dispensing fee, in respect of each item dispensed.

Under the terms of the new GMS contract, practices must provide certain Essential services to patients.  Essential services are defined as:

Total number of posts (e.g. GP posts), including any vacant posts and/or the patients attached to those posts.

General Medical Services