Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) GPs and (b) GP vacancies there are in the North East of England; and how many and what proportion of GPs are employed on a locum basis in that region.
The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in general practice in the North East and Yorkshire NHS England Region as of December 2019 has been provided in the following table.
- | FTE |
General practitioners (GPs) (all) | 5,122 |
Locums | 148 |
The data requested on the number of vacancies is not available in the format requested.