Hundreds of practices face closure.(primary care organisations )

GMS contract PCOs failing to provide financial support to prevalence losers, GPC warns.

Hundreds of practices could face closure because of changes to the prevalence formula, the GPC has admitted.

GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman said last week that primary care organisations (PCOs) were failing to offer financial support to the worst-hit practices.

'PCOs perhaps don't see this as worth bothering with or they are being directed by SHAs not to bother with it,' he said.

'Tens, maybe hundreds' of practices could be forced to close unless support was agreed soon, he warned.

Earlier this year, GP revealed that practices will lose up to …