Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs have left NHS practice since July 2024.

Overall, between July 2024 and October 2025, the number of fully qualified, full-time equivalent (FTE) general practitioners (GPs) increased by 1,687.

In the period covering September 2024 to September 2025, the latest period for which the data is available, 2,825 fully qualified, FTE GPs left general practice, a loss of 1,817. The leaver rate for fully qualified GPs in headcount terms was 7.5%, which is the fourth lowest rate observed since this data began to be collected in September 2015 to September 2016.

The figure does not capture GP migration between practices during this period. Due to data quality issues, 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. The figure does not contain estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid records.