General Practitioners: Merseyside

(asked on 28th October 2014) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 4th November 2014

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:

  1. Figures are presented for the Mersey Area Team and the Cheshire, Warrington & Wirral Area Team covering the following CCGs:

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.

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