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General Practice Workforce 31 March 2021
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As part of the 31 December 2021 publication, released on 10 February 2022, we introduced a significant methodological change and recalculated and re-published all historical figures back to September 2015, which means that figures in that release differ from and supersede those previously published, including those in this publication.
These pages have been retained in the publication archive for your reference, but the figures presented should no longer be used.
See the Methodological Review and Changes page of the December 2021 publication for an explanation of the changes.
10 February 2022 09:30 AM
Summary
This report presents data about GPs, Nurses, Direct Patient Care and Admin/Non-Clinical staff working in General Practice in England, along with information on their patients and practices.
It is a snapshot of the workforce at the date of data extract but also includes an additional measure which reflects the amount of ad-hoc or infrequent locum usage within the quarter since the last extraction and publication.
This release provides counts of the workforce at 31 March 2021 while also including three months of infrequent locum usage and so remains in line with previous quarterly releases.
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Highlights
Full-Time Equivalent
is a standardised measure of the workload of an employed person and allows for the total workforce workload to be expressed as the equivalent number of full-time staff. 1.0 FTE equates to full-time work of 37.5 hours per week, an FTE of 0.5 would equate to 18.75 hours per week.
All GPs
35,273 Full-time equivalent (2.8% (945) more than March 2020)
Fully qualified GPs (excludes Registrars)
28,096 Full-time equivalent (0.4% (111) more than March 2020)
Qualified permanent GPs (excludes Registrars and Locums)
26,805 Full-time equivalent (12 more than March 2020)
Nurses
16,801 Full-time equivalent (4 more than March 2020)
Direct patient care staff
15,213 Full-time equivalent (7.6% (1,079) more than March 2020)
Admin / non-clinical staff
70,003 Full-time equivalent (1.6% (1,078) more than March 2020)
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