How many patients are registered with a GP in Cheshire and Merseyside?

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board had about 2,802,101 registered GP patients in NHS England's QOF 2024-25 data — 4.39% of England's total and the 4th largest of 42 ICBs. Its Gera GP List Size Index is 185 (100 = national-average ICB), placing it in the "Very large" band.

How many patients are registered with a GP in Cheshire and Merseyside?

About 2,802,101 patients were registered with a GP across NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board in NHS England's QOF 2024-25 data — 4.39% of England's registered GP population and the 4th largest of 42 ICBs.

What is Cheshire and Merseyside's Gera GP List Size Index?

Cheshire and Merseyside has a Gera GP List Size Index of 185, where 100 is an exactly average-sized ICB — so its registered list is 1.8× larger than the average English ICB. That places it in the "Very large" band.

Is this a rating of GP practices in the area?

No. It is a measure of how large the registered patient population is, taken from official NHS QOF statistics. It is not a rating or ranking of any GP practice or of the care provided.

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Cheshire and Merseyside: GP List Size Index

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board had about 2,802,101 registered GP patients in the real NHS England QOF 2024-25 data — a Gera GP List Size Index of 185 (100 = national average), ranked #4 of 42 English ICBs.

Reference period: 2024/25 (QOF)· Open Government Licence v3.0 · ICB code QYG

Gera GP List Size Index185Cheshire and Merseyside — Very large (100 = national-average ICB)How this index is calculated

Registered patients

2,802,101

QOF 2024-25

Index (100=avg)

185

Very large

National rank

of 42 ICBs

Share of England

4.39%

registered GP list

How Cheshire and Merseyside compares

England had 63,766,671 registered GP patients across 42 ICBs — an average of 1,518,254 per ICB. Cheshire and Merseyside’s registered list of 2,802,101 gives it an index of 185: a value above 100 means a larger-than-average registered population, below 100 means smaller. Nationally there are about 10,305 registered patients per GP practice and roughly 1,676 per full-time GP (NHS England General Practice Workforce, April 2026).

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Cheshire and Merseyside: GP list size FAQs

How many patients are registered with a GP in Cheshire and Merseyside?: About 2,802,101 patients were registered with a GP across NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board in NHS England's QOF 2024-25 data — 4.39% of England's registered GP population and the 4th largest of 42 ICBs.
What is Cheshire and Merseyside's Gera GP List Size Index?: Cheshire and Merseyside has a Gera GP List Size Index of 185, where 100 is an exactly average-sized ICB — so its registered list is 1.8× larger than the average English ICB. That places it in the "Very large" band.
Is this a rating of GP practices in the area?: No. It is a measure of how large the registered patient population is, taken from official NHS QOF statistics. It is not a rating or ranking of any GP practice or of the care provided.

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Source

Registered list size is the real published NHS England QOF 2024-25 figure for this ICB. The index is Gera’s scaling (100 = national-average ICB) and is specified in full on the methodology page. The national workload figures are from the NHS England General Practice Workforce statistics.

Contains public sector information published by NHS England and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England — Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) 2024-25 (registered patient list size) (2024/25, published 28 August 2025).

Contains public sector information published by NHS England and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England — General Practice Workforce (31 December 2025 / 30 April 2026) (2025-26, published 2026).