GOS payments to contractors

PCSE have informed LOCSU and the Optical Confederation there has been a delay in processing some GOS payments this month due to the recent adverse weather.

Payments for areas that have already been processed are listed in the table below, and the extent of the delays have been confirmed. 

Ad-hoc payments

NHS England’s Central Finance Team have agreed to implement a special process to ensure that all contractors in the affected areas receive a payment before the last working day in March. Contractors in the areas listed in the list titled 'Ad-hoc payments', will receive an ad-hoc payment on the 26 or 27 March to the same value as their February 2018 GOS payment. This ad-hoc payment will be balanced against the contractor’s March 2018 GOS payment once it has been processed by PCSE.

Contractors will receive a remittance notice from NHS SBS (where a valid email remittance address is held) for the ad-hoc payment paid by NHS England but will not receive a GOS statement until their claims have been fully processed by PCSE. A further remittance notice will be issued from NHS SBS showing the balance paid to the contractor on the revised payment date for their area where the March payment value is greater than the ad-hoc payment. If the March payment is less than the ad-hoc payment, then the overpayment will be deducted from the April GOS payment.

The revised payment date will be confirmed to contractors by PCSE once processing for their area has been completed. The latest payment date is expected to be 9 April 2018.

It is important that contractors read the information on the two remittance notices received from SBS in conjunction with their March GOS statement.

Areas not affected

There are no anticipated delays for any areas not listed below. 

Practice cashflow problems

Contractors in the affected areas should receive an email from their PCSE Regional Liaison Manager (RLM). Any contractors for whom the delayed payment will cause cashflow problems or financial hardship should contact their RLM to request an emergency payment. 

Areas already processed

Area	In bank date	Regional Liaison Manager
Birmingham East & North 5PG	16/03	[email protected]
Birmingham Heartlands 5MX
Birmingham South 5M1
Solihull 5QW
Cambridge 5PP	16/03	[email protected]
Gt Yarmouth and Waveney 5PR
Norfolk 5PQ
Peterborough 5PN
Suffolk 5PT
Hampshire 5QC	20/03	[email protected]
Portsmouth 5FE
Southampton 5L1
Isle of Wight 5QT
Nottingham County 5N8	20/03	[email protected]
Nottingham City 5EM
Bassetlaw 5ET
Derby County 5N6	20/03	[email protected]
Derby City 5N7
West Sussex 5P6	21/03	[email protected]
Dorset 5QM	21/03	[email protected]
Bournemouth and Poole 5QN
Bexley TAK	21/03	[email protected]
Greenwich 5A8
West Kent 5P9	22/03	[email protected]
East & Coastal Kent 5QA
Medway 5L3
East Berkshire 5QG	22/03	[email protected]
West Berkshire 5QF
Oxford 5QE
City & Hackney 5C3	22/03	[email protected]
Tower Hamlets 5C4
Newham 5C5
Wirral 5NK	26/03	[email protected]
Sefton 5NJ
Calderdale 5J6	26/03	[email protected]
Kirklees 5N2

Ad-hoc payments

Ad-hoc payments will be issued to the following areas: 

• Barnet 5A9
• Brent 5K5
• Camden 5K7
• Chelsea & Kensington 5LA
• Croydon 5K9
• Devon 5QQ
• Ealing 5HX
• Enfield 5C1
• Gloucester 5QH
• Halton & St Helens 5NM
• Hammersmith & Fulham 5H1
• Haringey 5C9
• Harrow 5K6
• Hartlepool 5D9
• Hillingdon 5H
• Hounslow 5AT
• Islington 5K8
• Kingston 5A5
• Knowsley 5J4
• Leicester City 5PC
• Leicester County 5PA
• Liverpool 5NL
• Merton & Sutton 5M
• Middlesbrough 5KM
• North Staffs 5PH
• Northants 5PD
• Plymouth 5F1
• Redcar & Cleveland 5QR
• Richmond & Twickenham 5M6
• South Staffs 5PK
• Stockton on Tees 5E1
• Stoke 5PJ
• Surrey 5P5
• Swindon 5K3
• Torbay TAL
• Wandsworth 5LG
• Westminster 5LC
• Wiltshire 5QK