{"id":"gp-surgery-workforce","title":"GP Surgery Workforce & Patient List Sizes (England)","description":"GP practice list sizes and GP workforce for England, combining NHS Organisation Data Service practice records with NHS England General Practice Workforce statistics. Shows registered patients, full-time-equivalent (FTE) GPs and the resulting patients-per-FTE-GP pressure ratio by practice and Integrated Care Board.","url":"https://geraclinic.com/data/gp-surgery-workforce","coverage":"England — GP practices and ICBs","spatialCoverage":"England","temporalCoverage":"2026-04","rowCount":6123,"rowUnit":"GP practices","provenance":{"source":"NHS England General Practice Workforce + NHS Organisation Data Service","sourceUrl":"https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services/30-april-2026","publisher":"NHS England","licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","licenceUrl":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","attribution":"Contains public sector information published by NHS England and the NHS Organisation Data Service, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","asOf":"April 2026","modified":"2026-06-20"},"methodology":"Practice records from the NHS Organisation Data Service are joined to NHS England General Practice Workforce statistics for the same reference month. Patients-per-FTE-GP is registered patients divided by full-time-equivalent GPs, computed per practice from the published figures. National totals are sums across the dataset; no estimation is applied.","keyFigures":[{"label":"GP practices","value":"6,123"},{"label":"Registered patients","value":"63,601,941"},{"label":"FTE GPs","value":"37,948"},{"label":"Patients per FTE GP","value":"1,676","note":"median practice 1,747"}],"columns":[{"name":"icb","description":"Integrated Care Board name"},{"name":"practices","description":"Number of GP practices in the ICB"},{"name":"registeredPatients","description":"Total registered patients across the ICB"}],"sampleRows":[{"icb":"NHS Central East ICB","practices":53,"registeredPatients":1354542},{"icb":"NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB","practices":36,"registeredPatients":1029191},{"icb":"NHS Thames Valley ICB","practices":39,"registeredPatients":969882},{"icb":"NHS West and North London ICB","practices":32,"registeredPatients":946262},{"icb":"NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB","practices":37,"registeredPatients":879403},{"icb":"NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB","practices":24,"registeredPatients":738235}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraClinic; cite the original publisher above."}