Helen Salisbury: Funding GPs through the additional roles scheme won’t solve GP unemployment

2024/10/01 by Helen Salisbury · 1 voice
Health Professions · #Global Health Workforce Issues #Health Services Management and Policy #Healthcare Systems and Challenges

paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/bmj.q2132

openalex publication_date 2024/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

Funding for general practice has been falling since 2018, 1 and the only new money available has been through the primary care networks-groups of practices covering 30 000-50 000 patients.Money

Discussions

• If the money currently spent on the ARRS budget was restored to core GP funding—trusting practices to use it wisely—we could then invest in more doctors, which is what patients want, and let the marke [bsky, 11 points, 0 comments]

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