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Ratio of GPs per 10,000 population (3713) Metric type

URI
http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/3713
Help text
This indicator is a crude rate of General Practitioners per 10,000 population in a local authority. It was derived by the LGA to give a sense of health service provision in each authority.

It was derived from both the National General Practice Profiles Practice Inclusion list by Public Health England (http://tinyurl.com/odfeocw), which provides address details of GP surgeries in England, and the General Medical Practitioners list by HSCIC (http://tinyurl.com/m3go89k), which provides names and surgery addresses of all active General Practitioners in England.

Cases from the HSCIC list were excluded if listed as working at a surgery not listed in the Public Health England Practice Inclusion list. Criteria for inclusion on the National General Practice Profiles Practice Inclusion list (Public Health England) are: The practice is listed in the Quality and Outcomes Framework 2013/14; The practice is listed in ADS (Attribution Data Set GP-Registered Populations, HSCIC); The practice list size is > 900 patients. These revised (2014) criteria mean that very few practices have been excluded.

Postcodes were matched to a local authority using the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) (https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk), providing an estimate of the number of GPs within each local authority. To calculate the crude ratio of GPs in each authority per 10,000 population, the number of GPs in each authority was multiplied by 10,000 and then divided by the ONS population count for the authority.
Modified
14 Dec 2023
Data last updated
18 Dec 2023
Short label
Ratio of GPs per 10,000 population
Status
Discontinu
Output precision
1
Polarity
not applicable
Measure
General practitioners per 10,000 population
Dataset
General Practitioners
Collection
Health service provision in an area
Source
Local Government Association
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