Fully qualified GPs (headcount and full-time equivalent) by ethnicity

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Next update expected:January 2027

Updates

30th June 2026

This update includes the publication of September 2025 data

17th March 2026
Dataset first published.

Main information

Designation
Official statistics
Data provider 1
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
Data source 1
Locum Hub Wales (LHW)
Data provider 2
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
Data source 2
Primary Care Workforce Intelligence System
Data provider 3
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
Data source 3
Wales National Workforce Reporting System (WNWRS)
Time period covered
June 2021 to September 2025
Dataset ID
1acd1008-46ce-4081-b8c3-db52fdcd5ebd

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables

This shows the number of (headcount and full-time equivalent) fully qualified GPs employed in general practices by ethnicity, at every quarterly snapshot date since 30-Jun-21.

Data collection or calculation

Fully qualified GPs includes partners, providers, salaried, retainers and locum GPs only.

Locums are counted if they had any work recorded through Locum Hub Wales at any point during the quarter ending in the snapshot date only. For all the other GP types, it is based on the headcount as at the snapshot date.

The following list shows the individual ethnicities that are included in the ethnic groups presented in this release:

White: White British

White: White Irish

White: White - Any other White background

Asian or Asian British: Asian or Asian British - Indian

Asian or Asian British: Asian or Asian British - Pakistani

Asian or Asian British: Asian or Asian British - Bangladeshi

Asian or Asian British: Asian or Asian British - Any other Asian background

Asian or Asian British: Malaysian

Asian or Asian British: Chinese

Black or Black British: Black or Black British - African

Black or Black British: Black or Black British - Caribbean

Black or Black British: Other Black background

Black or Black British: Black Nigerian

Mixed / Multiple Ethnic Group: Mixed - White & Black African

Mixed / Multiple Ethnic Group: Mixed White / Asian

Mixed / Multiple Ethnic Group: Mixed White / Black Caribbean

Mixed / Multiple Ethnic Group: Other Mixed background

Other Ethnic Groups: Other ethnic group

Not stated/Unknown: Unknown

Not stated/Unknown: Not Stated

Not stated/Unknown: Declined

Statistical quality

Note that locums are not required to enter their ethnicity when recording work through Locum Hub Wales, and therefore account for a large proportion of fully qualified GPs with unknown information.

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Organisation
Welsh Government
Contact email
stats.healthinfo@gov.wales