General Practitioners: Widnes
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs there were in Widnes each year since 2020.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The following table shows full time equivalent (FTE) doctors in general practice in Widnes and Halewood constituency in the period between March 2020 and March 2026:
Date | All doctors in general practice | Fully qualified general practitioners | General practitioners in training grades |
March 2020 | 37.2 | 31.9 | 5.3 |
March 2021 | 40.2 | 33.4 | 6.8 |
March 2022 | 41.8 | 34.4 | 7.4 |
March 2023 | 42.5 | 34.0 | 8.5 |
March 2024 | 34.7 | 28.5 | 6.2 |
March 2025 | 40.2 | 31.9 | 8.3 |
March 2026 | 42.5 | 34.4 | 8.1 |
Source: NHS England
Notes:
Data does not include estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.
Data does not include general practitioners (GPs) employed directly by primary care networks (PCNs) as PCNs may operate across constituency boundaries.
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. In 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.
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.
Practices in Widnes and Halewood constituency were identified using the practice postcode and the National Statistics Postcode Lookup.
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