Number of local health board managed practices and staff employed in them (full-time equivalent), by local health board

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Next update expected:June 2026

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30th April 2026

This update includes the publication of September 2025 data.

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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
December 2021 to September 2025

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables

The information presented here shows the number of local health board managed practices and staff employed in them (full-time equivalent) by local health board at every quarterly snapshot date since 31 December 2021. A managed practice is a practice where, in the absence of a contract between the health board and a GP partner, the local health board manages the general practice with staff that may include salaried GPs and GP locums.

Data collection or calculation

Managed practices are identified each quarter from practice information provided by NHS Shared Services Partnership. All statistics in this StatsWales cube are based on only these practices.

From 30 September 2025, general practice workforce data are sourced from the Primary Care Workforce Intelligence System (PCWIS), which supersedes the Wales National Workforce Reporting System (WNWRS) that had been the data source since 2020.

Statistical quality

Nearly all practices will record their locum GP sessions through Locum Hub Wales (LHW) as this is a requirement for that work to be covered by The Scheme for General Medical Practice Indemnity (GMPI). The only practices which may not do this are local health board managed practices, which directly employ staff through health board contracts, rather than through independent primary care contracts. Locum work in health board managed practices is covered by the health board’s indemnity rather than GMPI. GP locums may also use LHW as a scheduling tool, so they may record sessions through LHW, even when working in a local health board managed practice.

From 31 March 2024, data are included for locum work in local health board managed practices that were not recorded through LHW.

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