Publication, Part of Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update
Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update, 31 March 2023, Experimental Statistics
Revision of collated FTE time series
An issue has been identified with the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme claims data which resulted in a small amount of overcounting in the collated full-time equivalent (FTE) figures published in 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.
The cases have been identified and excluded from the underlying data. Consequently, the collated figure time series has been recalculated and revised figures published in tables 1a and 1b of the collated full-time equivalent Excel tables. All CSVs from the beginning of the time series have also been revised and republished.
18 May 2023 09:30 AM
FTE GPs tables added
On Thursday, 8 June 2023, an additional Excel file was included under Resources on the Overview page, presenting Primary Care Workforce, England - full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs, March 2023. See the Using This Publication page for more information.
8 June 2023 09:30 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: 6 June 2023 4:24 pm