GMSQP Reference Manual 

GD SCREEN

Page 4   Seniority Screen

New GMS Seniority is payable to all current GPs, provided that they have completed 

a minimum of two years reckonable NHS Service following initial appointment as a 

GP Principal. The level at which New GMS Seniority is paid will depend on total 

reckonable NHS Service since the Doctor's Date of Registration. Service is reckoned 

as commencing from the Doctor's Provisional Date of Registration (unless, where the 

Doctor has trained abroad,  this date is not available, in which case Date of Full 

Registration is to be used). 

The Seniority screen allows the recording of: 

the GP's Principal Start Date; 

Pre principal Reckonable NHS Service periods start and end dates; and 

any career break periods while working as a GP Principal. 

The fields below are pre filled with data from GD page 1 to reduce the need for manual 

input: 

Pre principal Reckonable Service Start Date, which defaults to the Date of 

Registration; 

Pre principal Reckonable Service End date, which defaults to the day before GP 

Start; and 

GP Principal Start Date, which defaults to GP Start. 

The data on GD Page 4 will require confirmation with the GP practices and will require 

amendment where: 

the doctor has had prior services at another PCO or Agency, and the GP Start 

Date on GD Page 1 is not the date when the GP Started initially working as a 

GP; 

the doctor has not worked continuously for the NHS for the period from 

Registration to becoming a GP; and/or 

the doctor has had a break (or breaks) in service since becoming a GP. 

NOTE 

The Seniority Screen replaces the Seniority fields on Page 3. Any Amendment to 

Page 3 requires the removal of entries from the Seniority fields on that page. 

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