GP Contract Services form part of the General Medical Services (GMS) contract, which covers the delivery of primary care services across England, agreed between NHS England and the British Medical Association's (BMA) General Practitioners Committee (GPC). These data are primarily used for payment and management information purposes as well as for wider usage to help support commissioning, planning and policy decisions. This release contains data for the following services:

Childhood season influenza programme

GMS PMS Core Contract Data Collection

Primary Care Network Extraction

Seasonal Influenza Programme

The GP Contract Services data are collected by NHS Digital via the Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) and General Practice Extraction Service (GPES).

Management information: These data have not undergone any quality checking nor has analysis of their coverage been made.

For the first time, the Childhood Seasonal Influenza Programme and Seasonal Influenza Programme will be published monthly. The most recent data is for November 2020 and was downloaded from CQRS on 21 December 2020.

For the Primary Care Network Extraction, data for quarters 1 and 2 have been published together but this data will be published on a quarterly basis going forward. The most recent data is for quarter 2 20/21 (July - September 2020) and was downloaded from CQRS on 4 December 2020. Note: There were known issues with the quarter 1 data within the Primary Care Network Extraction therefore data from the following practices have been removed from the publication: C83032, C83045, C83064, D83007, D83039, D83041, D83043, D83044, D83050, D83058, D83079, L83076.