Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent GPs were employed in general practices in Ashfield in the financial years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2014-15.

The information requested is not collected in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.

Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

Notes:

1. GP workforce numbers are available only by the National Health Service organisation where they are employed; figures are not available at constituency level. Ashfield constituency is contained within and serviced by Mansfield and Ashfield CCG, Nottingham North and East CCG and Nottingham West CCG but cannot be identified separately within these larger areas. Prior to the formation of CCGs in April 2013, these three CCGs were part of Nottingham City PCT and Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT.
2. In 2013 and 2014 there were a number of GP registrars (trainees) employed centrally by NHS England’s Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Area Team. It was not possible to attach many of these staff to a specific GP practice within a CCG.
3. Data are shown as at 30 September each year as per the NHS workforce census. Figures by financial year are not available.
4. '.' denotes not applicable.
5. Data Quality: The HSCIC 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.