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
Notice of Changes
New NWRS job roles
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 as part of this release.
PCN to ICB mapping correction
The revised CSVs also include a correction to the mapping of PCN U48923 (SWB Urban Health PCN) to its parent Sub-ICB Location and ICB. This PCN was affected by boundary changes in July 2022 which meant it moved from Sub-ICB Location D2P2L, ICB QUA (NHS Black Country ICB) to Sub-ICB 15E, ICB QHL (NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB).
However, the September 2021 to June 2022 CSVs we reproduced in July 2022 to reflect these boundary changes did not capture the change for SWB Urban Health PCN. The PCN has been correctly mapped in all CSVs produced as part of this release.
Forthcoming changes
New job roles including Mental Health Practitioners
New job roles were added to the National Workforce Reporting Service (NWRS) collection tool for the Primary Care Network workforce during March 2023. They are:
Direct Patient Care:
- General Practice Assistant
- Social Worker
- Peer Support Worker
- Applied Psychologist
Nursing:
- Community Mental Health Nurse
There is now also new NWRS functionality to specify whether certain roles are Mental Health Practitioners, and whether they cover adult or young people’s care. The applicable roles are:
Direct Patient Care:
- Social Worker
- Peer Support Worker
- Applied Psychologist – Clinical
- Social Prescribing Link Worker
- Therapist – Occupational Therapist
- Therapist – Counsellor
- Therapist – Other
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
- Clinical Associate in Psychology
- Trainee Clinical Associate in Psychology
Nursing:
- Community Mental Health Nurse
The General Practice Assistant role was also added to NWRS for the general practice workforce.
All these roles, including the mental health practitioner variants, will be included for the first time in the combined NWRS tables of this series of statistics for the Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update, 30 June 2023 publication, scheduled for release on 17 August 2023. General practice assistants and a grouping of mental health practitioners will be included in the collated FTE tables for the same release.
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