General Practitioners

(asked on 10th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2014, Official Report, column 704W, on general practitioners, what estimate he has made of the effect of projected population growth from overseas immigration on the demand for GP services over the next 10 years.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 15th July 2014

NHS England has advised that they are not undertaking any work to estimate the impact of immigration on the numbers of general practitioners (GPs)(or other health services). However, there may be local work being carried out by clinical commissioning groups to ensure they can plan for a growing population.

The Department commissioned the Centre for Workforce Intelligence to conduct an in-depth review of the GP workforce. The report will be published shortly and will build on the preliminary findings published in March 2013.

The review will assess:

- current workforce numbers to forecast supply;

- key drivers affecting workforce demand; and

- regional variations in demand.

The review will make recommendations for future workforce planning. It will also address issues such as GP workload and the 2015 recruitment target and beyond, as well as wider issues around primary care delivery.

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