Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs were practising in Ashfield constituency (a) on the last date for which figures are available and (b) in 2010.

The information is not available in the format requested.

The number of general practitioners (GPs), excluding registrars, retainers, and locums, in the former Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) in 2010, and in each of the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that succeeded the PCT, in 2015 and 2016 is shown in the following tables:

Source: NHS Digital

Notes:

1. Data as at 30 September 2010, 30 September 2015 and 31 March 2016.
2. Prior to 2015, figures are sourced from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) System. From 2015 onwards, figures are sourced from the workforce Minimum Dataset and include estimates for missing data. Figures from September 2015 and March 2016 are provisional experimental and are not comparable with previous years. GP Registered Patient data is taken from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) system for all years.
3. March data was collected and published in full on the workforce Minimum Dataset for the first time in March 2016. These figures have been included to provide the most up-to-date information.
4. In 2010, Ashfield constituency was contained within and serviced by Nottinghamshire County PCT. From 2013 onwards, Ashfield constituency has been within NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG. The four other CCGs which emerged from Nottinghamshire County PCT have been included in the data also to provide comparability with previous years.
5. '..' denotes not applicable.
6. Headcount Methodology: The latest headcount methodology means this data is not fully comparable with previous years, due to improvements that make it a more stringent count of absolute staff numbers. Further information on the headcount methodology is available in the Census publication. Headcount totals are unlikely to equal the sum of components.
7. Full Time Equivalent refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours, 0.5 that they worked half time.
8. Data Quality: NHS Digital 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.