Publication, Part of Primary Care Network Workforce
Primary Care Network Workforce, 31 March 2024
Official statistics
These statistics were previously released under an “experimental statistics” banner. Following a review of the data completeness and quality and an assessment against the Statistics Code of Practice they are now designated as official statistics.
25 April 2024 00:00 AM
Notice of Changes
New functionality recently introduced to the National Workforce Reporting Service (NWRS) allows PCNs to tell us whether their Occupational Therapists are Advanced Practitioners and whether they are Mental Health Practitioners. Previously, only the Advanced Practitioner option was available.
Consequently, from this release, the existing roles (Occupational Therapists and Advanced Occupational Therapist Practitioners ) have been split into into the following roles:
- Advanced Occupational Therapist Practitioners - (Non-mental Health Practitioners)
- Advanced Occupational Therapist Practitioners - (Mental Health Practitioners)
- Occupational Therapists - (Non-mental Health Practitioners)*
- Occupational Therapists - (Mental Health Practitioners)*
*In the Excel Bulletin tables, the Occupational Therapists who are not Advanced Practitioners are grouped with other Therapist roles and so are included in the figures for Therapists - (Non-mental Health Practitioners) or Therapists - (Mental Health Practitioners), depending on their mental health practitioner status. The DETAILED_STAFF_ROLE field of the accompanying CSV presents the different types of Therapist separately.
Where any members of staff are mental health practitioners, the DETAILED_STAFF_ROLE field of the accompanying CSV also denotes whether they provide mental health care for adults or for children and young people.
Forthcoming changes
New job roles
Three new job roles were recently added to NWRS and will be included in these statistics for the first time in the Primary Care Network Workforce, 30 April 2024 release. They are:
- Osteopath
- Advanced Osteopath Practitioner
- Trainee Pharmacy Technician
Renaming of existing job roles
High Intensity Therapists and Trainee High Intensity Therapists were recently renamed in NWRS as NHS Talking Therapies Therapists and Trainee NHS Talking Therapies Therapists respectively. These name changes will be reflected in the Primary Care Network Workforce, 30 April 2024 release.
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