How many patients are registered with a GP in Somerset?

NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board had about 607,920 registered GP patients in NHS England's QOF 2024-25 data — 0.95% of England's total and the 40th largest of 42 ICBs. Its Gera GP List Size Index is 40 (100 = national-average ICB), placing it in the "Very small" band.

How many patients are registered with a GP in Somerset?

About 607,920 patients were registered with a GP across NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board in NHS England's QOF 2024-25 data — 0.95% of England's registered GP population and the 40th largest of 42 ICBs.

What is Somerset's Gera GP List Size Index?

Somerset has a Gera GP List Size Index of 40, where 100 is an exactly average-sized ICB — so its registered list is 0.40× the size of the average English ICB. That places it in the "Very small" 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.

GeraClinic / GP List Size Index / Somerset

Somerset: GP List Size Index

NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board had about 607,920 registered GP patients in the real NHS England QOF 2024-25 data — a Gera GP List Size Index of 40 (100 = national average), ranked #40 of 42 English ICBs.

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

Gera GP List Size Index40Somerset — Very small (100 = national-average ICB)How this index is calculated

Registered patients

607,920

QOF 2024-25

Index (100=avg)

Very small

National rank

#40

of 42 ICBs

Share of England

0.95%

registered GP list

How Somerset compares

England had 63,766,671 registered GP patients across 42 ICBs — an average of 1,518,254 per ICB. Somerset’s registered list of 607,920 gives it an index of 40: 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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Somerset: GP list size FAQs

How many patients are registered with a GP in Somerset?: About 607,920 patients were registered with a GP across NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board in NHS England's QOF 2024-25 data — 0.95% of England's registered GP population and the 40th largest of 42 ICBs.
What is Somerset's Gera GP List Size Index?: Somerset has a Gera GP List Size Index of 40, where 100 is an exactly average-sized ICB — so its registered list is 0.40× the size of the average English ICB. That places it in the "Very small" 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).