DRAFT - General Practice Workforce Engagement

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General Practice Workforce Engagement

NHS England has in place a range of measures aimed at supporting the general practice workforce that have been introduced over time. These include:

  • GP recruitment and retention schemes
  • The introduction of new patient facing roles in General Practice
  • Increased provision of health and wellbeing initiatives

We want to understand the impact existing approaches to recruitment and retention have had to feed into future proposals for support for people working in general practice. This includes improving our understanding of the experience of people with protected characteristics and the seldom heard, so we can identify any disparities in experience and any adjustments required to meet their particular needs.

The people who work in general practice know what is needed so we want to create bespoke opportunities to hear your views. We are working together to co-ordinate requests so the demands on your time are limited and that the time that you do give is used effectively. There are a number of opportunities to get involved and to be heard including:

  • A survey about GP recruitment and retention schemes being run over December and January.
  • Focus groups about what frontline staff think is needed to strengthen workforce retention being run over January initially, to start a programme of working with you to identify further options to make primary care a great place to work.

On this page:

If you would like to complete the survey and would like to register your interest in the focus groups and workshops, please complete through the links below.

For more information about the General Practice Workforce Recruitment and Retention Schemes, please see the ‘Key Documents’ section on this page.

Other planned engagement being run in the New Year includes:

  • A pilot of the national staff survey within PCNs and practices being run within eight systems which will be sent out over March and April
  • A health and wellbeing survey being run in the new year

As part of this engagement we will be working with professional bodies, colleges and representative groups to hear their perspectives of the solutions needed, and how we might work together to achieve this.

We look forward to hearing from you.


General Practice Workforce Engagement

NHS England has in place a range of measures aimed at supporting the general practice workforce that have been introduced over time. These include:

  • GP recruitment and retention schemes
  • The introduction of new patient facing roles in General Practice
  • Increased provision of health and wellbeing initiatives

We want to understand the impact existing approaches to recruitment and retention have had to feed into future proposals for support for people working in general practice. This includes improving our understanding of the experience of people with protected characteristics and the seldom heard, so we can identify any disparities in experience and any adjustments required to meet their particular needs.

The people who work in general practice know what is needed so we want to create bespoke opportunities to hear your views. We are working together to co-ordinate requests so the demands on your time are limited and that the time that you do give is used effectively. There are a number of opportunities to get involved and to be heard including:

  • A survey about GP recruitment and retention schemes being run over December and January.
  • Focus groups about what frontline staff think is needed to strengthen workforce retention being run over January initially, to start a programme of working with you to identify further options to make primary care a great place to work.

On this page:

If you would like to complete the survey and would like to register your interest in the focus groups and workshops, please complete through the links below.

For more information about the General Practice Workforce Recruitment and Retention Schemes, please see the ‘Key Documents’ section on this page.

Other planned engagement being run in the New Year includes:

  • A pilot of the national staff survey within PCNs and practices being run within eight systems which will be sent out over March and April
  • A health and wellbeing survey being run in the new year

As part of this engagement we will be working with professional bodies, colleges and representative groups to hear their perspectives of the solutions needed, and how we might work together to achieve this.

We look forward to hearing from you.