General Practitioners
(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs there were per head of population in each English region in (a) 2010 and (b) the most recent period for which figures are available.
Comparisons between 2010 and 2017 are not possible due to changes in National Health Service geographies. Figures are for the NHS regional breakdown in place at each census date. For 2010 this is strategic health authority (SHA), and primary care trust (PCT) and for 2017, NHS Region, NHS Region (Local Office) and clinical commissioning group.
In addition, 2010 figures are sourced from National Health Application and Infrastructure Services GP Payments (Exeter) System. 2017 figures are sourced from the workforce Minimum Dataset and include estimates for missing data. Therefore figures between the two years shown are not comparable.
All practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars and locums) headcount per 100,000 population by English region as at September 2010
Region | Headcount per 100,000 population | |
England | 67.8 | |
Q30 | North East | 71.4 |
Q31 | North West | 69.0 |
Q32 | Yorkshire and the Humber | 68.2 |
Q33 | East Midlands | 63.4 |
Q34 | West Midlands | 66.2 |
Q35 | East Of England | 63.0 |
Q36 | London | 68.9 |
Q37 | South East Coast | 66.0 |
Q38 | South Central | 67.4 |
Q39 | South West | 76.7 |
Source: NHS Digital
All practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars and locums) headcount per 100,000 population by English region as at September 2017
Region | Headcount per 100,000 population | |
England | 62.0 | |
| ||
Y54 | North of England | 62.9 |
Consisting of: | ||
Q72 | NHS England North (Yorkshire and Humber) | 62.8 |
Q83 | NHS England North (Greater Manchester) | 60.6 |
Q84 | NHS England North (Lancashire) | 59.3 |
Q74 | NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) | 64.5 |
Q75 | NHS England North (Cheshire and Merseyside) | 66.7 |
Y55 | Midlands and East of England | 58.6 |
Consisting of: | ||
Q76 | NHS England Midlands and East (North Midlands) | 59.6 |
Q77 | NHS England Midlands and East (West Midlands) | 63.3 |
Q78 | NHS England Midlands and East (Central Midlands) | 55.1 |
Q79 | NHS England Midlands and East (East) | 57.5 |
Y57 | South of England | 65.3 |
Consisting of: | ||
Q80 | NHS England South (South West) | 73.7 |
Q81 | NHS England South (South East) | 60.7 |
Q82 | NHS England South (South Central) | 65.7 |
Q70 | NHS England South (Wessex) | 62.9 |
Y56 | London | 62.1 |
Source: NHS Digital
For the 2010 figures, it should be noted that some PCTs did not map directly to SHA geographies. For six SHAs, the sum of their PCTs populations will be slightly different to the population of the SHA individually. The responsibility for a PCT lies with only one SHA, but certain PCTs geographically straddled more than one SHA.The six SHAs that are affected by this are: North West SHA, Yorkshire and Humber SHA, East Midlands SHA, South East Coast SHA, South Central SHA and South West SHA.