General Practitioners
(asked on 30th November 2022) - View Source
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 general practice appointments were carried out by (a) GPs in face-to-face consultations and (b) non-GPs in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the available data from January to October 2022 and August to December 2021 on the number and proportion of appointments conducted face-to-face by general practitioners (GPs), excluding COVID-19 vaccinations.
January to October 2022 | August to December 2021 | |
Number of face-to-face appointments with GPs | 72,510,020 | 33,609,864 |
Percentage of face-to-face appointments with GPs | 54.5% | 49.0% |
The following table shows the number and proportion of appointments undertaken by non-GP staff in general practices in England, excluding COVID-19 vaccinations since 2018.
| January to October 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
Number of appointments | 128.87 million | 141.27 million | 125.31 million | 138.03 million | 131.46 million |
Proportion of appointments | 47.5% | 45.4% | 45.3% | 45.4% | 45.6% |