Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many fully-qualified GPs were working in General Practice in England in (a) 2019 and (b) the most recent period for which data is available.

The information requested is publicly available and can be accessed here:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services/31-december-2022.

Notes

· Data includes estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.

· In December 2022, 2.1% of fully qualified GP FTE was estimated where practices had not provided fully valid staff records.

· Before July 2021, data was only available quarterly for the following months: March, June, September and December.

· Full-time equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time.

TARGET DATE 09/02/2023

· 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.

· Figures include GP partners, salaried GPs, GP retainers and GP regular locums.