What funding have area teams allocated to support practices with recruitment problems since April 2013, and what is it used for?
| Area team | Funding | How many practices/what for? |
| Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire | £30,000 | 1 practice: awarded in 2013/14 to assist with ‘cashflow’ issues due to locum costs, deanery funding has been agreed from April 2014 but costs haven’t yet been confirmed. |
| Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset and South Gloucestershire | £101,075 | 1 practice: the St Martin’s Surgery in Knowles was funded to cover locum costs when the practice couldn’t recruit partners, and to provide locum cover when the remaining partners retired after a failed merger attempt. |
| East Anglia | £10,000 | 1 practice: the reason for funding isn’t specified but the practice hasn’t taken the funding up yet. |
| Essex | £15,850 | 1 practice: in Frinton-on-Sea, to help ‘streamline’ practices, in addition to the area team offering elping nine other practices without funding |
| Shropshire and Staffordshire (April 2014 -present) | £111,000 | 12 practices: £24,000 has been given to six practices since April 2014, and funding is approved for a further six practices. To pay relocation costs for newly recruited GPs among other things. |
| This total also includes £24,000 allocated in 2013/14 given to practices (one specified in Stoke-on-Trent) | ||
| Surrey and Sussex | £51,000 | 3 practices: in Hastings, East Sussex, were allocated annual funding to be used directly for recruiting additional GPs |
| Total | £318,925 |
