Major changes planned to boost support for communities across the country and tackle health inequalities

Communities – including more deprived and coastal areas – expected to benefit from a fairer distribution of GP funding

Comes as online GP appointment booking requests are now available in move to end the 8am scramble

Communities across the country – including those in more deprived areas and coastal towns – are expected to benefit from a fairer distribution of GP funding as the government launches a review to tackle healthcare inequalities across the NHS today (Thursday 9 October).

The current formula for distributing GP funding – known as the Carr-Hill formula – is based on data that is around 25 years old in some cases. The formula uses expected workload of GP practices to determi

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