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General Practice Workforce - 31 March 2020
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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.
Please see the Methodological Review and Changes page of the December 2021 publication for an explanation of the changes.
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Summary
This quarterly 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. All data is final at publication.
In the General Practice Workforce 30 September 2019 publication, released 28 November 2019, we produced a revised General Practice Workforce time series incorporating improvements in the estimations methodology and in the collection of GP registrar and GP locum data. The revised time series figures are not comparable with earlier figures published prior to 28 November 2019 and therefore all the figures released in the General Practice Workforce 30 September 2019 publication and later publications supersede the earlier releases, all of which we have archived and advise should no longer be used.
Information about the contents of this publication and how it can and cannot be used, can be found in the Report tab. Our publication includes information on recent and planned changes as well as highlighting future developments.
We are continually working to improve our publications, and information on the first stage of improvements - to come into effect in the next publication of June 2020 workforce data - can be found in the Notice of Changes tab. We welcome feedback from all our users on these proposals, by email to: [email protected].
Various data breakdowns are available in the accompanying Excel and CSV files, including time series and breakdowns by categories such as age and gender. Data is also presented regionally and at practice level for March 2020 in the accompanying CSVs.
This publication also features an interactive dashboard which allows users to explore the underlying data in a variety of ways. This can be accessed by clicking on the dashboard link below.
Links to other publications presenting healthcare workforce information can be found under Related Links.
Highlights
Latest figures, for 31 March 2020:
Full-Time Equivalent
is a standardised measure of the workload of an employed person and allows for the total workforce workload to be expressed in an 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
34,327 Full-time equivalent (1.2% (409) fewer than March 2019)
Fully qualified GPs (excludes Registrars)
27,985 Full-time equivalent (2.5% (712) fewer than March 2019)
Qualified permanent GPs (excludes Registrars and Locums)
26,793 Full-time equivalent (2.1% (588) fewer than March 2019)
Nurses
16,797 Full-time equivalent (1.9% (315) more than March 2019)
Direct patient care staff
14,134 Full-time equivalent (8.9% (1,158) more than March 2019)
Admin / non-clinical staff
68,924 Full-time equivalent (2.8% (1,888) more than March 2019)
These figures include estimates for practices not providing complete and/or valid data. The percentage of practices requiring full or partial estimations are shown in Table 1 in the Report tab.
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