Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional GPs were recruited in the NHS in each of the last eight years.

The following table shows the number of headcount and full-time equivalent (FTE) joiners to the qualified permanent general practitioner (GP) workforce, excluding doctors in GP training grade and locums in September of each year from 2015 to 2022.

Notes:

1. Figures are based only on non-estimated qualified permanent GPs (excludes doctors in GP training grade and locums) with either a completed General Medical Council registration number, National Insurance Number or both name and date of birth details.
2. Data shows GPs who joined and/or left the cohort workforce between the beginning and end of each specified time period.
3. These figures do not capture GP migration between practices during this period.
4. Due to data quality, a GP recorded as a leaver in these figures may have left one practice and joined another practice with poor data completion. In instances such as this, a GP will be incorrectly recorded as a leaver due to the identifying information no longer being present in the dataset. Conversely, a GP could appear in the practice cohort as a joiner but may have joined from a practice with poor data completion rather than being a new addition to the GP workforce.
5. Figures shown do not include GPs 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.