The projections anticipate that the Government will also fail in all three scenarios to deliver on its pledge to deploy 6,000 GPs by 2023/34. This ‘pessimistic’ scenario would also see the Government fail to deliver on its manifesto pledge to hire 26,000 additional general practice staff by 2023/34. The Health Foundation projections also set out an ‘optimistic’ scenario where DPC staff could grow to 72,000 in the same time period if ‘additional policy action facilitates increased use of a bigger and broader general practice workforce team’.īut it warned that if the PCN and ARRS initiatives fail to realise their potential, with no further workforce measures put in place beyond 2023/24, the number of DPC staff could reach only 40,000 by the end of the decade. To make up the shortfall, in line with current policy action focused on PCNs and the ARRS scheme, the number of direct-patient care (DPC) staff (excluding GPs and practice nurses) could grow from around 25,400 FTE in 2021/22 to 55,300. Overall, the report showed that the number of general practice clinical staff who are not GPs or nurses could nearly double by 2030 if current trends remain consistent, while the GP shortfall is expected to more than double. Pharmacy technician numbers in general practice also grew - from none in 2017, to 71 in 2019 and to 989 in 2021. In comparison, 584 pharmacists worked in general practice in 2017. Workforce data from the Health Foundation has revealed a 277% rise in the number of clinical pharmacists working in general practice between 20 - from 1,241 to 4,684. The number of clinical pharmacists working in general practice in England has tripled since 2019, when the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) was introduced, figures have shown.
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