Written questions

General Practitioners: Recruitment

Commons · Question 32550 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 5 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 30436 on GPs, what proportion of the 38,000 additional roles recruited through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme are GPs.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 5 Mar 2025

Over 38,000 direct patient care roles such as pharmacists and physios have been recruited into practices and primary care networks (PCNs) from March 2019 to December 2024. This data does not include general practitioners (GPs) employed through the scheme....