What is a Non-General Practitioner (GP) Provider?

A Non-GP Provider is a partner, single-hander, or shareholder in a:

  • General Medical Services (GMS) practice
  • Personal Medical Services (PMS) practice
  • Specialist Provider Medical Services (SPMS) practice
  • Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) practice

They’re not a GP.

For HSC Pension Scheme purposes a Non-GP Provider is classed as a whole-time officer.

If a non-GP Provider has more than one contract with more than one practice, they can only pension the actual pensionable profits from one contract only.

Their HSC pensionable pay is their share of the practice profits. This will include pensionable income in respect of ad-hoc GP work that their GP colleagues have elected to ‘pool’.

Non-GP providers are classed as self-employed. They’re responsible for the employer and employee contributions.

Forms

Like their GP Provider counterparts, they must complete an Annual Certificate of Pensionable Profits available here, and send it to their employing authority (EA) by the end of February for the previous scheme year.