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.
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:
The data does not go back further than April 2013.