Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of GPs qualifying in summer 2025 have secured employment in the UK.

Doctors complete general practice (GP) training on a rolling basis throughout the year. Over 1,600 doctors completed the GP Specialty Training programme between June and August 2025. As general practices are independent businesses, data on the proportion of these GPs who have secured employment in the National Health Service in England is not available.

To improve understanding of movement of doctors from GP training to the substantive workforce over time, NHS England publishes quarterly analysis of the last time doctors in their final year of GP specialty training can be identified in a general practice placement and the first time they can be identified in a substantive role recorded by a practice or Primary Care Networks in the National Workforce Reporting Service. This information is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/supplementary-information/2025/gpwf_st3_tracking_202509