General Practitioners: Working Hours
(asked on 2nd November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many GPs are currently working for (1) three or fewer days per week, (2) four days per week, and (3) five days per week; and what is the average salary for each of these categories.
The data on General Practitioners (GPs) working hours broken down by number of days worked per week is not collected.
Data on the full-time equivalent work commitments of GPs, broken down into working hours bands, are shown in the following table:
Headcount of qualified permanent GPs (excludes GPs in training grade and locums) by work commitment in England, September 2021 1,2, 3
Working commitment | Number (headcount) |
Working less than or equal to 15 hours per week ( | 2,879 |
Working greater than 15 hours to less than 37.5 hours per week (>0.4 to | 24,016 |
Working 37.5 hours and over per week (>= 1 FTE) | 8,447 |
Data on the average salaries of GPs broken down by days worked per week or weekly hours bands is not collected.
Notes
1 Headcount totals are unlikely to equal the sum of components, due in part to individuals working across multiple roles and areas. Further information on the headcount methodology is available in the Data Quality statement.
2 Figures shown do not include staff working in Prisons, Army Bases, Educational Establishments, Specialist Care Centres including Drug Rehabilitation Centres, Walk-In Centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.
3 This is the third release to be based on the monthly collection of general practice workforce information. Following stakeholder feedback and the move to monthly publications we are reviewing the implementation of methodological changes introduced in the June 2021 publication. See the Methodology Review publication page of this release for more information. Until this review is complete, all published figures remain provisional and we will not be presenting a time series. Therefore, only statistics relating to September 2021 are included in this release. The time series will be reinstated once the review has been concluded and a methodology agreed.
This table shows the headcount numbers of staff by their work commitment, where 37.5 hours a week = 1 FTE
Data as at the last day of the applicable month
Source: NHS Digital