Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of GPs who have left the NHS since 1 January 2016.

The Department has not made any estimate of the number of general practitioners (GPs) who have left the National Health Service since 1 January 2016.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s (HSCIC) General and Personal Medical Services: England 2005-2015, Provisional Experimental workforce statistics published on 27 April showed that as at September 2015, there were 1,288 more full-time equivalent GPs working and training in the National Health Service than in September 2010. The HSCIC will be publishing these workforce statistics bi-annually, with data as at 31 March 2016 due for publication in September.