General Practitioners: Enfield

(asked on 10th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS GPs there were in the London Borough of Enfield in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
This question was answered on 22nd May 2023

The following table shows the number of doctors in general practice in London Borough of Enfield from 2015 to 2022. Data before September 2015 is not included because of a change in the data collection methodology.

Date

Doctors in general practice, full time equivalent (FTE), London Borough of Enfield

September 2015

162

September 2016

155

September 2017

155

September 2018

166

September 2019

173

September 2020

167

September 2021

175

September 2022

169

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 general practitioner 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 includes estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.
  5. Practices in the London Borough of Enfield were identified using the National Statistics Postcode Lookup.
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