<p>We recognise that high workloads can be a key driver for general practitioners (GPs) reducing their contracted hours or leaving altogether. The expanded primary care teams funded through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme will add extra clinical capacity. ‘Our plan for patients’ allows pharmacies to help ease pressures on GPs and free up time for appointments by managing and supplying more medicines.</p><p>As part of the 2020/21 GP contract, to reduce administrative tasks and to help maximise the time available for care, the Government committed to a thorough review of levels of bureaucracy in general practice. As part of this work, in August 2022, a cross-Government concordat was published agreeing to seven co-designed principles to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy in general practice. The Department continues to work across Government and with the National Health Service to implement the solutions that emerge.</p>