PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners: Stockport (26 April 2023)

The table below shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors in general practice in Stockport constituency from September 2015 to September 2022.

The table below shows the number of FTE doctors in general practice in Stockport constituency from September 2012 to September 2014. Practice data was not available in 2010 and 2011, hence the figures have not been included for these years.

Source: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services

Notes

1. 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. For GPs in Training Grade contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours and in this table these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours for consistency.
2. Figures shown do not include staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including Drug Rehabilitation Centres, Walk-In Centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.
3. Data from September 2015 onwards was collected using a new methodology and should therefore not be directly compared with data from before September 2015. Figures from September 2015 should be treated with caution as the data submission rates under the new methodology from practices were appreciably lower than for subsequent reporting periods. This means that the reported figures for the early years of the collection may be lower than the true picture. In September 2015, which was the first extract from the new Workforce Minimum Data Set, only three of four Health Education England regions submitted data.
4. Data from September 2015 onwards does not include estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.
5. Practices in Stockport constituency were identified using the National Statistics Postcode Lookup.