NOTICES (Last updated July 2025):
As per the comms sent on the 23rd June 2025, we are moving to monthly payments to practices for all GP Training related payments based on the previous months activity. This will take effect in July 2025.
Your end of month statement in July will include all ESR and Trainer Grant payments between 1st April 2025 and 30th June 2025. It will also include all CPD payments for the 25/26 financial year.
For further information, click here to view the comms email.
From 1st April 2025 the new Trainer Grant rate is £10,796.91 per annum. This amount has been reflected in the money due in July 2025.
About practice payments:
There are a number of payments that hosting and supervising Post Graduate Doctors in Training attract.
All payments are made automatically via PCSE Online and can be expected to be received at the end of the payment month.
Please click the information boxes below, and/or download the 'information for GP practices' document at the bottom of the page for specific guidance on each of these payments.
If you have any queries in reference to the information found here, or payments received, please contact the East of England Business Support team.
Eligibility
Education Supervisors (Tier 3) will be eligible for reimbursement of each ST1 and ST2 ESR, both in hospital and practice placements. This is paid automatically at a rate of £250.00 per report and includes Interim ESRs.
Process
Up until June 2025, payments will be made automatically on a six monthly basis to the Educators Practice. Thereafter, payments will be made on a monthly basis.
It is therefore imperative you inform us, as well as your local training hub, if any details have changed since your first time approval or self-declaration.
Unless you are a locum educator, please do not submit any invoices as these will not be processed. If you are a locum educator, please contact us to discuss your payments.
Payments
- March 2025 to include ESRs for the period 01/09/2024 – 31/03/2025 (adjustments made in April) PROCESSED
- July 2025 to include ESRs for the period 01/04/2025 - 30/06/2025 - PROCESSED
- August 2025 to include ESRs for the period 01/07/2025 - 31/07/2026
- September 2025 to include ESRs for the period 01/08/2025 - 31/08/2025
- October 2025 to include ESRs for the period 01/09/2025 - 30/09/2025
- November 2025 to include ESRs for the period 01/10/2025 - 31/10/2025
Eligibility
The CPD allowance of £750 per year is for approved GP Tier 3 Trainers only. This will not be paid to Associate Trainers.
To qualify for this CPD payment Trainers must be;
- Active GP trainers (within the last 2 years)
- Currently on the Performers List
- Maintaining performance as a GP Trainer which must be evidenced in NHS appraisal documentation
Trainers must be able to evidence, should they be asked, that they meet all the qualifying criteria which may will form part of an audit trail for NHS Finance purposes.
Process
CPD payments will be paid automatically, usually once a year in November, via PCSE Online directly to the Educators Practice. Please do not submit an invoice as this will not be processed.
If you are not an approved educator at the time the payment is made you will not be in receipt of the payment until the following year.
Up until November 2024, payments were paid automatically in November. In July 2025, the payment window will be changing and we will process all payments for the 25/26 financial year in the July month end statedment. From 26/27 all payments will be made in April.
If you are a locum educator, or there are any changes to your place of work since your last educator approval, you must let us, and the training hub, know.
Payments
- November 2023 for Tier 3 Educators approved on or before 30/09/2023. PAID
- November 2024 for Tier 3 Educators approved on or before 30/09/2024 PAID
- July 2025 for Tier 3 Educators approved by 07/07/2025 for the 2025/26 financial year
- April 2026 for Tier 3 Educators approved by 31st March 2026 for the 2026/27 financial year
Eligibility
All Postgraduate Doctors in General Practice Training attract an annual Trainers Grant, paid retrospectively and calculated on a pro rata (daily) basis for the number of days in the post, regardless of LTFT status (i.e. for a post between 1st April and 30th April you will receive 30 days worth of payment regardless of whether the trainee works 100% or 80% WTE).
This payment is paid directly to the practice that hosts the trainee.
Process
Up until July 2025, all payments will be paid automatically, twice a year, via PCSE Online directly to the Educators Practice.
From July 2025, all payments will be made on a monthly basis with activity conducted between 1st April 2025 and 30th June 2025 paid in the end of month statement.
Thereafter, payments will be made on a one month restrospective basis.
Please do not submit an invoice to NHS England as this will not be processed. If you are a secondary care placement or hospice for example who has an agreement directly with the practice to obtain a proportion of this payment, you must invoice the practice directly as this agreement is between the practice and host organisation only.
The Trainer Grant amount is set by the DDRB and is reviewed on an annual basis and typically published with the GP Educator Payscales (around September).
The amount for Trainer Grants increased in April 2025 to £10,796.91 per annum. This amount has been reflected in the July payment run.
Payments
- March 2025 to include Trainer Grants for the period 01/09/2024 – 31/03/2025 (adjustments made in April) PAID
- July 2025 to include Trainer Grants for the period 01/04/2025 - 30/06/2025 - PROCESSED
- August 2025 to include Trainer Grants for the period 01/07/2025 - 31/07/2026
- September 2025 to include Trainer Grants for the period 01/08/2025 - 31/08/2025
- October 2025 to include Trainer Grants for the period 01/09/2025 - 30/09/2025
- November 2025 to include Trainer Grants for the period 01/10/2025 - 31/10/2025
Please contact us via the East of England Business Support team if you have any queries relating to payments you have received.
