Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices have (a) opened and (b) closed in (i) Merseyside and (ii) Knowsley in each of the last five years.
The data requested is shown in the following table.
These figures include practice mergers and takeovers and do not provide an accurate representation of activity or service provision for patients. For example, the merger of three practices may show as three practices closing and one opening, or alternatively, as three practices closing and none opening (where two practices merge into another already existing practice).
2014 to 30 September | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | |
Closed: Mersey Area Team (excluding Wirral) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Opened: Mersey Area Team (excluding Wirral) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
Closed: Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral Area Team | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Opened: Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral Area Team | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Closed: NHS Knowsley Clinial Commissioning Group | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Opened: NHS Knowsley Clinical Commissioning Group | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre
Notes:
Mersey Area Team
01F NHS Halton CCG
01J NHS Knowsley CCG
01T NHS South Sefton CCG
01V NHS Southport and Formby CCG
01X NHS St Helens CCG
99A NHS Liverpool CCG
Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral Area Team
01C NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG
01R NHS South Cheshire CCG
02D NHS Vale Royal CCG
02E NHS Warrington CCG
02F NHS West Cheshire CCG
12F NHS Wirral CCG
When summed together the two sets of Area Team figures comprise the “Merseyside” area.