General Practitioners

(asked on 10th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries in (a) England, (b) Lancashire and (c) Hyndburn constituency are on (i) an Alternative Provider Medical Services contract and (ii) General Medical Services contracts.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 15th July 2014

The requested information is contained in the following table.

2010

2011

2012

20131

England

General Medical Services (GMS) Practices

4,538

4,581

4,458

4,345

Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Practices

262

276

260

271

North West Strategic Health Authority

GMS Practices

787

793

768

..

APMS Practices

57

60

53

..

Lancashire Area Team

GMS Practices

..

..

..

162

APMS Practices

..

..

..

7

East Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT)

GMS Practices

47

47

45

..

APMS Practices

2

2

2

..

NHS East Lancashire clinical commissioning group (CCG)

GMS Practices

..

..

..

44

APMS Practices

..

..

..

2

1Hyndburn constituency was held within and serviced by East Lancashire Teaching PCT in 2010-2012 and by NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group in 2013. Prior to the formation of the Area Teams in April 2013, the region of Lancashire was contained within the North West Strategic Health Authority

'..' denotes not applicable

Notes:

Data as at 30 September in each year

GP workforce statistics are not available at constituency level; figures are shown for those NHS Organisations in operation at the time of the relevant census

Data Quality:

The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.

Further details and definitions of GP Practice contracts can be found in our annual Census publication:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB13849

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