Many councils failed to spend their 2013-14 alloration or diverted local welfare funds to general budgets.
Cost variables were examined, with secondary care activity costed according to the method used in development of the person-based formula for allocating commissioning funds to general practices in England.
Then, as now, the BMA general practitioners committee worked with the defence fund to defend general practice.
The new organization plans to review the qualifications of every volunteer, establish case-management procedures, and propose rules and regulations for the new fund to Attorney General John Ashcroft, who will appoint the fund's special master.
To keep adding more demands, without an increase in the number of GPs and an increase in the funding given to general practice, is not an option".
Blaney says that although changes in government support for undergraduates recently reduced HEFCW funds, contributions to general research should remain steady at £71 million annually.
The poll, carried out by ComRes, also showed that 60% of the public want funding moved to general practice from other parts of the health service.
Dr Jones said the Welsh government needed to increase the funding allocated to general practice, which she claimed had decreased as a proportion of the NHS budget for several years.
Participants' comments emphasised the importance of the NHS, government and representative professional bodies adopting a more 'realistic' approach in order to reduce workload, administrative activity and patients' expectations, and increasing the funding available to general practice.
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA's GPs committee, said the failure to fund general practice to respond to that increase had left all surgeries struggling to cope.
