Data LibraryOfficial statistics
General Practice Workforce
Geography: England Englandas of Aug 2026
Total FTEEngland
150,346.7EnglandGP FTEEngland
39,553.5EnglandPatients per GP FTE
1,599caseloadNurse FTE
16,197EnglandStaff-group mix
FTE by NHS staff group · Aug 2026 · England
- Admin / non-clinical51%
- GP26.3%
- Direct Patient Care11.9%
- Nurse10.8%
GP FTE and total FTE
Last 13 months · England
GP FTETotal FTE
Year-on-year
GP FTE by financial-year month · England
2025/262026/27
Top geographies — ICBs across England
Ranked by registered patients per GP FTE · Aug 2026
England average: 1,599
Where this geography sits
This geography is at the 58th percentile of 36 peers on patients per GP FTE.
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All icbs — ICBs across England
Current-period staff groups · Aug 2026 · sortable
| NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,247 | 328.5 | 450.7 | 2,394.8 | 1,948 |
| NHS WEST AND NORTH LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,419.5 | 508.8 | 928.7 | 4,193.9 | 1,920 |
| NHS KENT AND MEDWAY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,067.5 | 550.5 | 674.4 | 2,701.2 | 1,905 |
| NHS ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,094.3 | 489 | 481.7 | 2,213.8 | 1,835 |
| NHS SOUTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,153.7 | 342.6 | 343.4 | 2,114.3 | 1,802 |
| NHS LINCOLNSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 463 | 325.3 | 474.2 | 1,253.7 | 1,772 |
| NHS SHROPSHIRE, TELFORD AND WREKIN INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 309 | 171.7 | 162.4 | 736 | 1,730 |
| NHS CENTRAL EAST INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,065.9 | 854.3 | 972.9 | 3,883.1 | 1,697 |
| NHS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 504 | 255.5 | 188.9 | 1,058.8 | 1,678 |
| NHS LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 728.2 | 255 | 374.7 | 1,428.3 | 1,677 |
| NHS THAMES VALLEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,373 | 495.8 | 777.2 | 2,587.3 | 1,663 |
| NHS HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,485.2 | 720.9 | 670.3 | 2,940.4 | 1,645 |
| NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,058.9 | 264 | 311.2 | 1,652.5 | 1,641 |
| NHS LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,052.4 | 555.1 | 511.1 | 2,379.7 | 1,632 |
| NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 665.6 | 354.1 | 326.8 | 1,402.9 | 1,630 |
| NHS SURREY AND SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,900.8 | 773 | 998.5 | 4,004.5 | 1,591 |
| NHS BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, SWINDON AND WILTSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 637 | 322.6 | 350.2 | 1,250.9 | 1,580 |
| NHS STAFFORDSHIRE AND STOKE-ON-TRENT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 764.1 | 339.2 | 269 | 1,501.6 | 1,572 |
| NHS HUMBER AND NORTH YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,148.9 | 586.5 | 737.2 | 2,395.6 | 1,569 |
| NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,141.8 | 637.6 | 1,024.8 | 2,646.1 | 1,567 |
| NHS DORSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 536.9 | 328.1 | 294.1 | 1,169.5 | 1,532 |
| NHS BLACK COUNTRY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 922.8 | 340.5 | 286.5 | 1,674.5 | 1,528 |
| NHS GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 457.1 | 207.7 | 278.6 | 847.9 | 1,525 |
| NHS SOUTH YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,009.7 | 438.5 | 364.6 | 1,851.1 | 1,498 |
| NHS NOTTINGHAM AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 848.9 | 337.2 | 282.5 | 1,525.1 | 1,487 |
| NHS WEST YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,816 | 748.9 | 710.1 | 3,369.8 | 1,469 |
| NHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,307.3 | 1,230.9 | 1,049.3 | 4,640.8 | 1,455 |
| NHS HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 572.9 | 259.8 | 337.3 | 1,114.4 | 1,450 |
| NHS DERBY AND DERBYSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 770.4 | 317 | 263.7 | 1,489.1 | 1,446 |
| NHS CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 418.2 | 218.4 | 367.9 | 946 | 1,443 |
| NHS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 772.8 | 228 | 188.4 | 1,168.3 | 1,431 |
| NHS DEVON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 901 | 409.1 | 425.1 | 1,764.3 | 1,430 |
| NHS SOMERSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 424.7 | 220.9 | 244.6 | 858.9 | 1,421 |
| NHS GREATER MANCHESTER INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,342.6 | 702.9 | 786.6 | 4,046.4 | 1,410 |
| NHS BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,103.2 | 288.3 | 343 | 1,807.2 | 1,392 |
| NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,040.6 | 773 | 587.2 | 3,664.7 | 1,368 |
| NHS BEDFORDSHIRE, LUTON AND MILTON KEYNES INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE WEST INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS FRIMLEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS HERTFORDSHIRE AND WEST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS MID AND SOUTH ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS NORFOLK AND WAVENEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS NORTH CENTRAL LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS NORTH WEST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS SURREY HEARTLANDS INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| NHS SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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About this data
Provenance & method
- Source
- NHS Digital ↗ Official statistics
- Latest period
- Aug 2026
- History
- May 2025 → Aug 2026
- Scale
- 98,450 rows
- Grain
- Practice → PCN → Borough → ICB → National
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- How this is produced
- Harvested from the NHS England Digital General Practice Workforce publication, joined on the ODS organisation tree (practice → PCN → ICB → region), idempotently loaded and auto-refreshed each month. GP, nurse, Direct Patient Care and admin FTE are all practice-grain and roll up cleanly to any selected geography. ARRS / PCN-employed staff are a separate (PCN-grain) explorer.