Publication, Part of Primary Care Network Workforce
Primary Care Network Workforce - 30 June 2021
Official statistics
NHS geography updates
There have been changes to the NHS England and Improvement regional structure since this release. From 1st July 2022, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) were established as statutory bodies replacing CCGs and STPs. From the Primary Care Network Workforce, 30 June 2022 publication, data is instead aggregated to Sub-ICB Location, and ICB level. These geography updates also involved boundary changes, with some Primary Care Networks (PCNs) moving to different Sub-ICB Locations and ICBs than they would previously have been situated.
In order to have a consistent and comparable time series at regional level, Individual-level CSVs for all periods back to March 2020 were reproduced as part of the 30 June 2022 release, with PCNs and Sub-ICB Locations remapped to reflect this latest structure. National totals are unaffected by this remapping but some figures at Sub-ICB (previously CCG) and ICB (previously STP) levels may differ to those previously published.
The regional bulletin tables 2a and 2b and the Individual-level CSV presented here reflect the old structure. Therefore, users are encouraged to use the remapped CSV files released with the 30 June 2022 publication for historical regional primary care network workforce figures.
1 July 2022 00:00 AM
Notice of Changes
Individual-level CSV introduced
The Individual-level CSV is comprised of a row for each role in the Primary Care Network workforce, with a pseudonymised ID number - labelled UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER - assigned to each individual. If an individual is working multiple roles in the Primary Care Network workforce, the same UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER will appear for each role they are working. This means that, by counting distinct instances of UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER within various groups, accurate headcounts within those groups can be calculated. The UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER numbers are reassigned for each publication and so cannot be used to track individuals over time across different publications.
For contracted services records, the UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER has been left blank. This is because contracted services data captures no personal information about the staff fulfilling the contracted responsibilities, only the total hours of work provided, and therefore only full-time equivalent information is available for these roles. For this reason, these rows should not be included in any headcount calculations and there is no inferable relationship between the FTE and Headcount figures in this publication.
The Individual-level CSV includes information about the CCG each individual works within and provides the same information available in tables 2a and 2b of the bulletin tables, in an open data format.
Introduction of new job role - Health Support Worker
The Health Support Worker job role was added to the collection tool in the quarter up to June 2021 and so is included in this publication for the first time.
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