Currently GP surgeries can use £1.4 billion for 2023/24 to fund up to 17 roles to help patients... as long as they are not practice nurses or GPs. Yes, you did just read that. The fund being used to finance roles to help with a shortage of GPs and practices nurses cannot be used to reduce that shortage.
Many surgeries are having to rely on ARRS funding to employ staff. I, and many other GPs believe practice nurses, salaried GPs and locum GPs should be added to this list of 17 roles. Please sign this petition if you agree:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/652965
Petitions and activism
Please sign this petition to allow GP surgeries to use employ practice nurses, salaried and locum GPs with ARRS funding.
StephenKatona · 22/12/2023 10:19
Petition: Allow ARRS funding to be used for practice nurses and GPs
The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) has made available to GP practices £1,412 million in 2023/24 to employ people in 17 new roles. We would like GP practices to also be able to use this money to pay for practice nurses, salaried GPs and lo...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/652965
StephenKatona · 22/12/2023 11:36
Hi tribpot, I know of many GPs who are struggling to find work and tell me there are less jobs being advertised. GP partners have to pay themselves from the money that is left which means GP partners who employ salaried GPs are often taking a pay cut compared to partners that employ staff using ARRS money. If there really is a shortage of practice nurses and GPs there should be no problem allowing ARRS money to employ them. By all means set a limit on how much a salaried GP might be paid, although it would be reasonable for a GP with 10 years experience to be paid at a rate higher than say band 8a for a physician associate for instance. You could argue there ought to be a band 9 for this purpose.
Pifful · 22/12/2023 12:06
Is this the pot of money that is allowing GPs to recruit physician's associates? These are people with a two year training course who are then let loose on undifferentiated diagnosis?
Many qualified doctors cannot find work because their jobs are being taken by these PAs simply because there is a pot of money for them.
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1737933459413471398
Hugely risky strategy.
https://twitter.com/Dr_Done_/status/1737239683879641092
Raxacoricofallapatorian · 22/12/2023 13:07
Is this why my GP practice suddenly has a pharmacist on staff who has all the time in the world to call me up and talk to me about the repeat prescriptions I've been taking for years, but no GP appointments?
youneveractually · 22/12/2023 12:07
i see a GP strike on the horizon.
StephenKatona · 22/12/2023 13:27
Yes, there are benefits to ARRS funding but why exclude practices nurses and doctors?
Raxacoricofallapatorian · 22/12/2023 13:07
Is this why my GP practice suddenly has a pharmacist on staff who has all the time in the world to call me up and talk to me about the repeat prescriptions I've been taking for years, but no GP appointments?
StephenKatona · 22/12/2023 13:45
This article effectively calls for the same action the petition supports.
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/editors-blog/schrodingers-recruitment-crisis/
monicagellerbing · 22/12/2023 14:22
I work in a GP surgery in the NorthEast, we have advertised for 2 salaried GP's now for nearly a year and have had one applicant. There is work out there and not enough GP'd
PinkDaffodil2 · 22/12/2023 14:05
You’re right about the work drying up - I’m sure there’s some regional variation but I’m salaried and had previously done Locum / OOH shifts around the kids but there’s nothing advertised and our OOH are filling the shifts with non-doctors. At work I’m increasingly expected to supervise / debrief a variety of other clinicians which would be fine if I understood their training and had enough time allocated but it’s just another layer of risk and time I don’t have.
I’ve signed though agree with PP it doesn’t address all the reasons. I also don’t trust the governments agenda with primary care at all - I think a lot of what is making things so horrific at the moment is entirely intentional.
I don’t know what the solution is but a lot of my peers (first 5 GPs) are starting to explore other options. I’m actively looking for other jobs which is upsetting but I think best in the long run.
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RSA · 22/12/2023 16:17
Nothing in Liverpool
287 all around UK / wales Scotland is not a lot of job x
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