General Practitioners: Greater London

(asked on 17th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the GP to patient ratio for (a) Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group and (b) other clinical commissioning groups in London; and if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of those GP to patient ratios.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 25th April 2018

The ratio of patients to full time equivalent (FTE) general practitioner (GPs) for Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is 2,015 to 1.

The ratio of patients to FTE GPs for each of the CCGs in London is presented in the table below.

CCG name

Ratio of patients to General Practitioner (FTE) As at September 2017

NHS Barking and Dagenham CCG

2,414 to 1

NHS Barnet CCG

2,093 to 1

NHS Bexley CCG

2,330 to 1

NHS Brent CCG

2,003 to 1

NHS Bromley CCG

2,054 to 1

NHS Camden CCG

1,635 to 1

NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG

2,184 to 1

NHS City and Hackney CCG

1,664 to 1

NHS Croydon CCG

2,042 to 1

NHS Ealing CCG

2,218 to 1

NHS Enfield CCG

2,175 to 1

NHS Greenwich CCG

2,161 to 1

NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG

1,741 to 1

NHS Haringey CCG

2,197 to 1

NHS Harrow CCG

1,944 to 1

NHS Havering CCG

1,943 to 1

NHS Hillingdon CCG

2,419 to 1

NHS Hounslow CCG

1,913 to 1

NHS Islington CCG

1,756 to 1

NHS Kingston CCG

1,857 to 1

NHS Lambeth CCG

1,849 to 1

NHS Lewisham CCG

2,015 to 1

NHS Merton CCG

2,024 to 1

NHS Newham CCG

2,286 to 1

NHS Redbridge CCG

2,374 to 1

NHS Richmond CCG

1,870 to 1

NHS Southwark CCG

2,033 to 1

NHS Sutton CCG

2,028 to 1

NHS Tower Hamlets CCG

1,717 to 1

NHS Waltham Forest CCG

2,184 to 1

NHS Wandsworth CCG

1,912 to 1

NHS West London CCG

1,752 to 1

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