General Practitioners
(asked on 19th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs there were in the Hull local authority area in each of the last five years; what the ratio of GPs to population was in that area in those years; and what the ratio of GPs to population was for England in those years.
The information is not available in the format requested.
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent general practitioners (GP) (including retainers and registrars) in England, Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) area, and Hull NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area, from 2009-2013.
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
England | 36,085 | 35,243 | 35,319 | 35,871 | 36,294 |
Hull PCT | 155 | 163 | 163 | 163 | - |
Hull NHS CCG | - | - | - | - | 166 |
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. Office for National Statistics, Mid-Year Population Estimates (2011 census based).
The following table shows the ratio of full-time equivalent GPs (including retainers and registrars) per 100,000 population in England, Hull Teaching PCT area, and Hull NHS CCG area, from 2009-2013.
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
England | 69.6 | 67.5 | 67.1 | 67.5 | 67.8 |
Hull PCT | 60.4 | 63.6 | 63.5 | 63.8 | - |
Hull NHS CCG | - | - | - | - | 64.7 |
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. Office for National Statistics, Mid-Year Population Estimates (2011 census based).
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) in England, Hull Teaching PCT area, and Hull NHS CCG area, from 2009-2013.
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
England | 32,111 | 31,356 | 31,391 | 31,578 | 32,075 |
Hull PCT | 150 | 155 | 152 | 150 | - |
Hull NHS CCG | - | - | - | - | 151 |
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. Office for National Statistics, Mid-Year Population Estimates (2011 census based).
The following table shows the ratio of full-time equivalent GPs (excluding retainers and registrars) per 100,000 population in England, Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust area, and Hull NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area, from 2009-2013.
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
England | 62.0 | 60.1 | 59.6 | 59.5 | 60.0 |
Hull PCT | 58.4 | 60.5 | 59.4 | 58.6 | - |
Hull NHS CCG | - | - | - | - | 58.6 |
Sources: The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. Office for National Statistics, Mid-Year Population Estimates (2011 census based).
Notes:
- Data as at 30 September each year.
- GP Workforce figures are only available by NHS organisations. Data for Hull Local Authority is not available.
- Figures are presented for the organisations that were in operation at the time of the relevant census. Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust was replaced by NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group in April 2013.
- Population figures are the ONS Resident Population figures not numbers of registered patients. The figures used are the latest available from ONS and may differ from previous NHS Workforce publications where estimates have since been updated.