General Practitioners: Oldham
(asked on 21st February 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered full time equivalent GPs serve the borough of Oldham in the latest period for which that data is available; and how many patients have been registered with surgeries in the borough of Oldham in each year from 2010.
In January 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, the borough of Oldham had 134.6 full time equivalent doctors in general practice (GP). The following table shows the number of GP registered patients in the borough of Oldham at the start of each year from 2014 to 2024, as the data is only available from 2014:
Date | Patients registered with a GP |
1 January 2014 | 231,784 |
1 January 2015 | 234,021 |
1 January 2016 | 237,404 |
1 January 2017 | 240,245 |
1 January 2018 | 242,836 |
1 January 2019 | 245,764 |
1 January 2020 | 248,153 |
1 January 2021 | 248,533 |
1 January 2022 | 250,048 |
1 January 2023 | 251,931 |
1 January 2024 | 255,526 |
Source: The data is taken from NHS Digital, and is available at the following link:
Note: Practices in Oldham were identified using the February 2024 release of the National Statistics Postcode Lookup and their postcode in the registered patient dataset from the time of publishing.