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Question follow-through · 30436

General Practitioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to promote the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to promote the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) was introduced in 2019, and since then over 38,000 additional roles have been recruited under the scheme.In October 2024, the scheme was extended to include recently qualified general practitioners (GPs). I...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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