About our campaign
The autumn budget announcement has left GP partners concerned about the significant rise in employment costs from April 2025 and the impact this will have on their practice. For many the cost of these changes to National Insurance contributions and the lowering of the threshold will be devastating. Previously, these cost increases have been fully compensated, but Treasury officials have said there will no reimbursement this time. This is completely unacceptable.
We are NHS GPs and have been in partnerships since the inception of the NHS – all we are asking is to be treated like all other parts of the NHS who will see these costs reimbursed. General practice is not like traditional businesses who can increase their costs when increased expenses arise, and we are making this quite clear to Government and their officials.
The Chancellor has publicly committed to ‘no reduction in spending powers across the NHS’, which, we have been told, includes NHS general practice. However, at the same time the Treasury have been saying that GP practices may not be refunded in full. We need clarity and certainty, not promises and conjecture. We have been in contact with the Government and will continue to lobby hard. By working together and using the data you submit, we stand the best chance of securing a funding uplift to cover this cost increase.
Use our NI calculator
Calculate the cost of the NI changes to your practice
Members may use our new calculator to estimate the impact of these increases to employer National Insurance contributions and the national minimum wage on general practice in England.
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Raise concerns with your MP
We need the Government to rapidly change its mind, and you can help us put pressure on them by writing to your local MP using our online tool.
- Read the letter we have sent to the Government on this issue
- Read our new national insurance briefing for members
We are on your side, and we are doing all we can to sort this problem out and make the Government see sense.
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