Publication, Part of Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update
Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update, 31 December 2022, Experimental Statistics
FTE GPs tables added
On Thursday, 9 March 2023, an additional Excel file was included under Resources on the Overview page, presenting Primary Care Workforce, England - full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs, December 2022. See the Using This Publication page for more information.
9 March 2023 09:30 AM
Planned revision of collated FTE figures
An issue has been identified with the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme claims data which has resulted in a small amount of overcounting in the collated full-time equivalent (FTE) figures published in this and previous releases.
The data used for the calculations included a small number of cases which related to staff who had left the PCN where they were working but remained in the system.
Initial investigations indicate the scale of overcounting to be between 1% and 2% of the total collated FTE at England level.
The cases have now been identified and excluded from the underlying data. Consequently, the collated figure time series will be recalculated and revised figures published as part of the Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update, 31 March 2023, scheduled for release on 18 May 2023.
6 April 2023 00:00 AM
Continuous review and development
The use of ARRS data to supplement NWRS data for the purposes of generating quarterly figures is not seen as a long-term solution. The strategic aim is to be able to derive FTE data for the quarterly update publication primarily from the NWRS collection tool. As such we intend to keep the use of ARRS data under close review and will consider ceasing the publication of the collated figure if any one of the three criteria below are met.
- There is an improvement in the completeness of data submitted to NWRS.
- The difference in reported FTE between the collated figure and NWRS alone narrows sufficiently that the use of ARRS claims data is no longer warranted.
- The ARRS scheme comes to an end, meaning that claims data are no longer available.
We will also continue to monitor the ARRS data to establish to what extent time elapses between some claims being submitted and approved. This is to help in assessing if it always appropriate to use the first available set of claims data as discussed in the Methodology page.
Last edited: 5 April 2023 4:50 pm