Health Services: Recruitment
(asked on 23rd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government is on track to meet its target of delivering 26,000 additional primary care staff to support GPs by 2024.
This question was answered on 2nd March 2022
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s current estimates show we are on schedule to deliver 26,000 additional primary care staff by 2024. In December 2021, there were an additional 8,830 direct patient care staff in Primary Care Networks compared to December 2019. The data also shows an increase of 2,267 full time equivalent direct patient care staff.