Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of full-time practising GPs in (a) South Tees NHS Trust, (b) the North East and (c) England for each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The requested information is shown in the table below. The table shows data for general practitioner (GP) full-time equivalent figures for NHS South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) and England, for each of the years in question. Prior to 2015, the locum headcounts were not recorded.
Year | All GPs Full-Time Equivalent | All GPs (Excluding Registrars, Retainers and Locums) Full-Time Equivalent | ||||
England | NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) | NHS South Tees CCG | England | NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) | NHS South Tees CCG | |
March 2017 | 33,921 | 1,679 | 156 | 28,092 | 1,544 | 145 |
September 2016 | 34,495 | 1,837 | 154 | 28,458 | 1,724 | 142 |
September 2015 | 34,592 | 1,910 | 165 | 29,229 | 1,774 | 150 |
September 2014 |
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| 32,628 | 2,160 | 180 |
September 2013 |
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| 32,075 | 2,143 | 189 |