PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners: Incentives (15 May 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an impact assessment of the change to the National Clinical Impact Awards on academic medical doctors who are not employed under the NHS consultant contract.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

The Government has not undertaken a specific impact assessment of the change to the National Clinical Impact Awards (NCIA) scheme on academic medical doctors who are not employed under the National Health Service consultant contract. Clinical academics and academic general practitioners remain eligible to apply for awards, providing they meet the minimum eligibility criteria set out in the NCIA guidance and are employed on the equivalent academic contracts.

An equality impact assessment was conducted ahead of the reforms in 2022, and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reforming-the-national-clinical-excellence-awards-scheme/outcome/reforming-the-national-clinical-excellence-awards-scheme-equality-impact-assessment

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
22 May 2023