General Practitioners

(asked on 7th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many patients were treated by doctors in general practice in each year between 2007 and 2017.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 20th June 2018

The number of patients treated by doctors in general practice is not collected or held centrally. The number of general practitioner (GP) appointments is not collected or held centrally. NHS Digital and NHS England are currently undergoing a review process on these appointments data. When this is published it will not include retrospective appointment data.

The number of registered patients at GP practices in England has been collected since April 2013 and is presented in the following table.

Date

Number of patients registered at a GP practice

2013

56,043,609

2014

56,442,722

2015

57,011,772

2016

57,631,776

2017

58,328,549

Notes:

  1. The data presented covers England only.
  2. Data snapshot extracted on 1 April from NHS Digital maintained GP Payments system.

The data does not go back further than April 2013.

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