Publication, Part of Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update
Primary Care Workforce Quarterly Update, 31st March 2022, Experimental Statistics
On Thursday, 16 June, an additional Excel file was included under Resources on the Overview page, presenting Primary Care Workforce, England - full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs, September 2021 to March 2022. See the Using This Publication page for more information.
19 May 2022 09:30 AM
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 Workforce Quarterly Update, 30 June 2022 publication, data is instead aggregated to Sub-ICB Location, and ICB level. These geography updates also involved boundary changes, with some practices and 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, the collated Direct Patient Care (DPC) FTE CSVs for all periods back to September 2021 were reproduced as part of the 30 June 2022 release, with practices, 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.
All regional bulletin tables and CSVs presented here reflect the old structure. Users are encouraged to use the remapped CSV files released with the 30 June 2022 publication for historical regional collated DPC FTE figures.
1 July 2022 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: 25 August 2022 2:48 pm