Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of General Practitioners report entitled Fit for the Future GP Pressures 2023, published in March 2023, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing for additional administrative resources in general practice.

We remain committed to growing and diversifying the general practice (GP) workforce. Through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) Primary Care Networks (PCNs) have recruited a wide variety of roles including those that can perform administrative duties such as GP assistants and Digital and Transformation leads.

In addition to the administrative resource recruited through the ARRS, PCNs receive funding to support their ongoing development and operations and Health Education England have developed a competency framework for care navigators to encourage a coherent approach to providing care navigation.