Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many GPs have been in practice for each year since 2010.

The number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in general practice in each year since 2015 has been provided in the following table. Data is not included prior to 2015 as improvements were made to the methodology for recording all staff working in general practice in September 2015 and data prior to this is not comparable.

Source: NHS Digital

Notes:

1. Data as at 30 September 2019.
2. Figures shown do not include general practice staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings.
3. Figures contain estimates, for practices that did not provide fully valid General Medical Practice general practitioner (GP), nurse or direct patient care staff records.
4. The figures presented include GP registrars and GP locums.
5. Data collected and published prior to September 2015 is not comparable due to a change in data collection methodology.
6. Data must be compared from the same time point in the year, therefore September data is provided to allow comparison for the earliest available data.
7. 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 Registrars' contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours. To ensure consistency, these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours in the table.