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 and General Practitioners report entitled Fit for the Future GP Pressures 2023, published in March 2023, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that report's findings on the level of management expertise in general practice; and if he will make a statement.

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) receive funding to support dedicated clinical director time, as well as being able to bring management expertise in through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme, which allows recruitment of Digital and Transformation leads to support the management and transformation of PCNs.

Primary care training hubs can direct qualified general practices to local training opportunities, as they do more broadly for all practice and PCN staff.