General Practitioners

(asked on 25th June 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Andrew Turner
(Conservative - Isle of Wight)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are on GP practice lists in (a) England and (b) each county; and how many people have been removed involuntarily from such lists in (i) England and (ii) each county in each of the last 12 months.

Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 30th June 2014

The following table shows the number of people on general practitioner (GP) practice lists and in each NHS England Area Team in England as at 30 September 2013. We do not hold this information by each county in England.

We do not hold the information centrally on how many people have been removed involuntarily from GP practice lists.

Under the terms of their contracts, GP practices must have reasonable grounds to remove a patient from their practice list which do not relate to the patient's race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, disability or medical condition.

GP Registered Patients

England

56,007,348

Q49

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

1,989,458

Q45

Durham, Darlington and Tees

1,224,872

Q50

North Yorkshire and Humber

1,689,042

Q47

Lancashire

1,521,721

Q52

West Yorkshire

2,435,786

Q48

Merseyside

1,257,011

Q46

Greater Manchester

2,880,262

Q44

Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral

1,279,416

Q51

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw

1,506,383

Q55

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

2,049,773

Q59

Leicestershire and Lincolnshire

1,822,274

Q60

Shropshire and Staffordshire

1,591,314

Q54

Birmingham and the Black Country

2,615,060

Q53

Arden, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

1,693,801

Q58

Hertfordshire and the South Midlands

2,831,463

Q56

East Anglia

2,511,745

Q57

Essex

1,801,428

Q71

London

8,978,299

Q69

Thames Valley

2,160,146

Q64

Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire

1,520,942

Q65

Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset & South Gloucs

1,507,605

Q66

Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

1,745,638

Q70

Wessex

2,789,815

Q68

Surrey and Sussex

2,813,739

Q67

Kent and Medway

1,790,355

Notes:

1. Data as at 30 September 2013

2. Figures show numbers of patient registrations at GP practices in England. Owing to multiple registrations and other issues the numbers of registered patients in England are higher each year than ONS Resident population estimates, and as such these figures may not represent the actual number of people registered to access GP services in a given area.

3. General and Personal Medical Services statistics are only available by NHS organisations and do not map precisely into English county regions.

4. GP Registered Patient figures by Area Team are based on the location of the GP practice to which the patients are registered.

5. Data on numbers of people who have been removed involuntarily from GP lists is not published within the Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

Data Quality:

The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.

Source:

The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

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