General Practitioners: North East
(asked on 7th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent GPs per 1000 patients there were in (a) the North East, (b) County Durham and (c) Easington constituency in each of the last five years.
Information is not available in the format requested. The data that is available is shown in the following table.
Table: Full Time Equivalent general practitioners (GPs) (excluding Locums) per 1,000 registered patients in selected area, 2011-16 |
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| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 20151 | March 20161 |
North East Strategic Health Authority | 0.71 | 0.73 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Durham, Darlington and Tees Area Team | .. | .. | 0.71 | 0.70 | .. | .. | |
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne And Wear Area Team | .. | .. | 0.79 | 0.78 | .. | .. | |
NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0.58 | 0.58 | |
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County Durham Primary Care Trust (PCT) | 0.73 | 0.75 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
NHS North Durham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) | .. | .. | 0.74 | 0.70 | 0.54 | 0.51 | |
NHS Durham Dales, Easington And Sedgefield CCG | .. | .. | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.61 | 0.56 | |
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Notes:
1 Prior to 2015 figures are sourced from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) System. From 2015 figures are sourced from the workforce Minimum Dataset (wMDS) and include estimates for missing data. Figures from September 2015 and March 2016 are provisional experimental and are not comparable with previous years.
GP Registered Patient data is taken from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) system for all years.
Figures are shown for those National Health Service organisations in operation at the time of the relevant census. GP workforce statistics are not available by constituency. Easington constituency is contained within and serviced by NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG. Prior to the formation of CCGs, Easington constituency was contained within and serviced by County Durham PCT.
Full Time Equivalents (FTE) for NHS staff are calculated based on working hours, where 37.5 hours per week is equal to 1 FTE.
Figures exclude GP Locums.
Data as at 30 September 2011-2015 and 31 March 2016.
March data was collected and published in full on the workforce Minimum Dataset for the first time in March 2016. These figures have been included to provide the most up-to-date information.
'..' denotes not applicable.