Developing the primary care workforce

The NHS Confederation argues that workforce planning and modelling assumptions in primary care need to incorporate new, emerging and more sustainable models of primary care. They make a series of recommendations which impact on training and CPD:

  • Focus the approach to workforce planning, and the education and training strategy beyond, around achieving population health outcomes
  • ensure that the health and social care workforce is trained in self-care and self-management.
  • Focus on and support the development of alternative medical roles in general practice, such as physicians’ assistants.
  • Develop the GP training curriculum to include health economics
  • Create more opportunities for inter-professional learning

Read the briefing here: Not more of the same: ensuring we have the right workforce for future models of care

Published: 1 November 2014