PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners: North East (4 May 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) GPs and (b) GP vacancies there are in the North East of England; and how many and what proportion of GPs are employed on a locum basis in that region.

Asked by:
Mr Richard Holden (Conservative)

The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in general practice in the North East and Yorkshire NHS England Region as of December 2019 has been provided in the following table.

-	FTE
General practitioners (GPs) (all)	5,122
Locums	148

The data requested on the number of vacancies is not available in the format requested.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
13 May 2020