Primary Care Workforce Survey 2026

Primary care is facing significant operational and workforce challenges, with increasing demand, recruitment pressures, and evolving models of care reshaping how services are delivered.

For those leading practices, PCNs, and GP groups, the challenge is not only meeting patient need today, but building sustainable models for the future.

This survey is designed to capture the perspectives of those managing and leading primary care services in 2026.

We’re exploring:

Workforce capacity and recruitment challenges
Use of multidisciplinary teams and skill mix
Access, demand, and service delivery pressures
Financial and operational sustainability
Plans for the future of practice and network models

Your insight will help create a clearer view of the operational realities facing primary care, and how organisations are adapting to ongoing change.

The survey takes only a few minutes to complete.
All responses are confidential and will be reported in aggregate.

We appreciate your time and contribution.

HAVE YOUR SAY...

Name *

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Please enter the town or city where you work *

Please choose a region where you work *

North West
North East
Yorkshire and Humberside
Midlands
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South West
South East
Wales
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What is your job title? *

Partner GP
Practice manager
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Job Title Description (Other)

The use of technology that promotes non face to face patient contact has made my practice/groups of pratices more efficient *

True
False

Multi-disciplinary team have decreased the workload of the GPs in my practice (s) *

True
False

Multi-disciplinary teams have enabled my GP team to focus their time on more complex cases? *

True
False

A GPs workload has increased over the past 12 - 18 months *

True
False

The GPs in my team have more for professional development over the past 12-18 months *

True
False

I am using my ARRS funding to recruit GPs for my practice *

True
False

I offer same day GP apointments to all urgent cases that are presented to my practice (S) *

True
False

I have had difficulty recruiting GPs into my practice(s) *

True
False

I have difficulty retaining Salaried GPs in my practice (s) *

True
False

I use GP Locums to fill gaps in my surgeries GP cover *

True
False

I have had GPs in my team take sick leave for work related stress over the past 12 months *

True
False

I am utilising AI to help recruit Primary Care Professionals into our pratices *

True
False

We will be sharing some dynamic results from this survey prior to the release of the full piece. This will be done across multiple social and digital platforms. It would be useful to understand which channels you currently use so that this is accessible for you.

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Email
Tik Tok

Our Salary and Attitude survey will be supplemented by a series of video interviews that we will be sharing on our social platforms. If you would like to talk to us as about how you would like to contribute or take part by offering your perspective please select yes below and we will get in touch. *

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Primary Care Workforce & Operations Survey 2026

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