Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 19
19
Deferred
Adopt recommendations on NHS pensions, accounting for GP partners and supporting practices.
Recommendation
The Government and NHS England should adopt the recommendations related to NHS pensions in our recent Report on Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care. In developing short and long-term solutions to the NHS pensions issue the Government and NHS England must specifically account for the status of GP partners as employers, for example by providing specific guidance and support for GP practices to help them adopt pension recycling and retire and return approaches. We welcome the focus on this issue in the Government’s Plan for Patients but the Government must provide further detail on what changes it will introduce. (Paragraph 65) Continuity of care
Government Response Summary
The government rejects the recommendation by referring to its response to recommendation 17 (which concerned continuity of care models) and reiterates plans to promote the RCGP’s Continuity of Care toolkit, thereby failing to address the substance of NHS pensions for GP partners.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
Do not accept. For the reasons stated in our response to recommendation 17, we do not accept this recommendation. However, as previously mentioned in that response, and as per our response to recommendation 15, we are introducing methods to further promote continuity of care in general practice to help ensure more patients can benefit from it when appropriate. We are further embedding continuity of care through the 2023/24 GP contract. It will promote the use of the Royal College of GP’s Continuity of Care toolkit via the Quality and Outcomes Framework Quality Improvement module on Optimising Demand and Capacity management in general practice. General Practice and NHS Organisations