General Practitioners
(asked on 15th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs there are in each Integrated Care System area.
NHS Digital publish general practice workforce data, including the numbers of doctors in general practice in England by sustainability and transformation partnership (STP), which correlate with integrated care system (ICS) areas. The information requested, by full-time equivalent and headcount as of September 2021, is shown in the following table.
| Doctors in general practice full time equivalent (FTE) | Doctors in general practice headcount |
Our Healthier South East London STP | 1,031 | 1,384 |
East London Health and Care Partnership STP | 1,150 | 1,526 |
North London Partners In Health and Care STP | 957 | 1,287 |
North West London Health and Care Partnership STP | 1,310 | 1,762 |
South West London Health and Care Partnership STP | 974 | 1,277 |
Devon STP | 841 | 1,153 |
Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire STP | 612 | 826 |
Gloucestershire STP | 418 | 560 |
Somerset STP | 368 | 464 |
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Health and Social Care Partnership STP | 394 | 497 |
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire STP | 609 | 855 |
Dorset STP | 518 | 661 |
Kent and Medway STP | 897 | 1,195 |
Frimley Health and Care ICS STP | 440 | 590 |
Sussex and East Surrey STP | 952 | 1,286 |
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight STP | 1,035 | 1,342 |
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West STP | 1,100 | 1,466 |
Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership STP | 617 | 844 |
Herefordshire and Worcestershire STP | 571 | 707 |
Birmingham and Solihull STP | 873 | 1,113 |
Joined Up Care Derbyshire STP | 716 | 887 |
Lincolnshire STP | 450 | 521 |
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland STP | 695 | 839 |
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent STP | 710 | 826 |
Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin STP | 316 | 395 |
Northamptonshire STP | 487 | 567 |
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Health and Care STP | 720 | 855 |
The Black Country and West Birmingham STP | 847 | 1,071 |
Coventry and Warwickshire STP | 655 | 792 |
Mid and South Essex STP | 609 | 737 |
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes STP | 513 | 624 |
Suffolk and North East Essex STP | 566 | 683 |
Hertfordshire and West Essex STP | 922 | 1,205 |
Norfolk and Waveney Health & Care Partnership STP | 629 | 762 |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough STP | 516 | 669 |
Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria | 990 | 1,219 |
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership STP | 1,984 | 2,465 |
Cheshire and Merseyside STP | 1,855 | 2,256 |
South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw STP | 968 | 1,211 |
Cumbria and North East STP | 1,948 | 2,434 |
Humber, Coast and Vale STP | 1,038 | 1,293 |
West Yorkshire and Harrogate (Health and Care Partnership) STP | 1,582 | 1,995 |
Source: NHS Digital
Notes:
- FTE 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 (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In GPs in Training Grade contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours and in this table these FTEs have been converted to the standard measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours for consistency.
2. Figures shown do not include staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.
3. Figures are published against the regional hierarchy as at 1 April 2021.
- Data from September 2021 is the third release to be based on the monthly collection of general practice workforce information. Following stakeholder feedback and the move to monthly publications NHS Digital are reviewing the implementation of methodological changes introduced in the June 2021 publication. Until this review is complete, all published figures remain provisional and is not presented in a time series. The time series will be reinstated once the review has been concluded and a methodology agreed.
5. Data as at the last day of the applicable month