Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to NHS Greater Manchester ICS to support with GP retention for 2022-23; and how much was spent for that purpose in 2021-22.

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care System’s (ICS) projected expenditure through NHS England’s national general practitioner (GP) retention scheme for 2022/23 is £221,000. In 2021/22, its spending was approximately £195,000.

In addition, through the Greater Manchester Primary Care Workforce Programme, in 2021/22 the ICS invested £639,000 in GP workforce development programmes which supported recruitment and retention. Its projected investment in 2022/23 is approximately £644,000.