Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs worked in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) London Borough of Enfield in each year since 2010.

The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors in general practice, in the London Borough of Enfield and Enfield North constituency from September 2015 to September 2022. Data before September 2015 is not included because of a change in the data collection methodology.

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

Notes:

1. 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. In GPs in Training Grade contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours and in this table these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours for consistency.
2. 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.
3. Data from September 2015 onwards was collected using a new methodology and should therefore not be directly compared with data from before September 2015. Figures from September 2015 should be treated with caution as the data submission rates under the new methodology from practices were appreciably lower than for subsequent reporting periods. This means that the reported figures for the early years of the collection may be lower than the true picture. In September 2015, which was the first extract from the new Workforce Minimum Data Set, only three of four Health Education England regions submitted data.
4. Data from September 2015 onwards includes estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.
5. Practices in Practices in the London Borough of Enfield and Enfield North constituency were identified using the National Statistics Postcode Lookup.