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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners (14 December 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of full-time practising GPs in (a) South Tees NHS Trust, (b) the North East and (c) England for each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Anna Turley (Labour)

Answer

The requested information is shown in the table below. The table shows data for general practitioner (GP) full-time equivalent figures for NHS South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) and England, for each of the years in question. Prior to 2015, the locum headcounts were not recorded.

Year

All GPs Full-Time Equivalent

All GPs (Excluding Registrars, Retainers and Locums) Full-Time Equivalent

England

NHS England North (Cumbria and North East)

NHS South Tees CCG

England

NHS England North (Cumbria and North East)

NHS South Tees CCG

March 2017

33,921

1,679

156

28,092

1,544

145

September 2016

34,495

1,837

154

28,458

1,724

142

September 2015

34,592

1,910

165

29,229

1,774

150

September 2014

32,628

2,160

180

September 2013

32,075

2,143

189


Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
19 December 2017

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