Practitioner Performance Advice – OAR (FOI_7481)

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Service: Practitioner Performance Advice

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I note your last annual report 2024-25 refers to “NHS Resolution’s Practitioner Performance Advice service delivers expert advice, support and interventions on the fair management of concerns about the performance of doctors, dentists and pharmacists.”: “The service received 1,420 new and reopened requests for advice from healthcare organisations with concerns about the practice of individual practitioners as well as services in 2024/25, representing a 24% increase compared to 2023/24.The open caseload at the end of the financial year stood at 1,149, a 15% increase when compared with the end of 2023/24.”

It adds: “Requests for assessment and remediation services remained at a high level in 2024/25, with 50 requests for professional support and remediation action plans, 44 requests for behavioural assessments, six requests for clinical performance assessments and four requests for team reviews.”

And it says: “NHS Resolution delivered OARs ( Organised Activity Reports) to 18 secondary care trusts in England, offering follow-up consultations with a Performance Practitioner Advice adviser to each, and finalized reports for primary care trusts, mental health trusts and trusts in Wales and Northern Ireland for delivery in 2025/26″.

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