Number of GPs employed in general practices (headcount and full-time equivalent), by GP type and area

Standard shorthand is used in this table: [t] = total.

Data values	Data description	GPType	Date	Area
2,332 [t]	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Wales
480	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
273	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Hywel Dda University Health Board
331	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Swansea Bay University Health Board
437	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
396	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
490	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
117	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Powys Teaching Health Board
54	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Anglesey
58	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Arfon
34	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Central & South Denbighshire
34	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Conwy East
60	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Conwy West
43	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North East Flintshire
25	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Dwyfor & North Meirionnydd
20	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North West Flintshire
17	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Meirionnydd
49	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Flintshire
30	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Denbighshire
42	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Wrexham
20	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North & West Wrexham
38	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Central Wrexham
40	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Amman/Gwendraeth
47	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Llanelli
31	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Ceredigion
51	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Pembrokeshire
31	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Ceredigion
29	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Pembrokeshire
55	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Taf / Tywi
52	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Afan
71	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	BayHealth
52	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Bridgend East Network
68	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Bridgend North Network
32	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Bridgend West Network
57	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	CityHealth
31	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cwmtawe
51	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Llwchwr
48	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Neath
45	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Penderi
28	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Upper Valleys
65	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cardiff East
63	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cardiff South East
43	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	City & Cardiff South
94	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cardiff North
101	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cardiff South West
56	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Cardiff West
58	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Central Vale
40	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Eastern Vale
30	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Western Vale
45	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Cynon
36	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Merthyr Tydfil
52	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Rhondda
49	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Taf Ely
48	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Cynon
31	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Merthyr Tydfil
74	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Rhondda
43	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Taf Ely
50	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Blaenau Gwent East
41	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Blaenau Gwent West
58	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Caerphilly East
60	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Caerphilly North
50	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Caerphilly South
50	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Monmouthshire North
40	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Monmouthshire South
67	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Newport East
89	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Newport West
64	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Torfaen North
55	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Torfaen South
29	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	Mid Powys
48	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	North Powys
40	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/06/2021	South Powys
2,377 [t]	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Wales
486	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
291	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Hywel Dda University Health Board
347	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Swansea Bay University Health Board
448	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
402	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
487	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
116	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Powys Teaching Health Board
61	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Anglesey
58	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Arfon
37	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Central & South Denbighshire
38	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Conwy East
59	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Conwy West
43	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	North East Flintshire
25	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Dwyfor & North Meirionnydd
22	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	North West Flintshire
17	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	South Meirionnydd
44	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	South Flintshire
31	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	North Denbighshire
42	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	South Wrexham
23	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	North & West Wrexham
36	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Central Wrexham
46	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Amman/Gwendraeth
65	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Llanelli
33	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	North Ceredigion
53	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	North Pembrokeshire
30	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	South Ceredigion
31	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	South Pembrokeshire
56	Headcount	Fully qualified GPs	30/09/2021	Taf / Tywi

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Main information

• Most recent update: 16 October 2025
• Next update expected: January 2026
• Designation: Official statistics
• Data provider: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
• Data source: Wales National Workforce Reporting System (WNWRS)
• Time period covered: March 2020 to June 2025

Data notes

• Revisions:
  • 16 October 2025
  • 16 October 2025

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  This shows the number of (headcount) and full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs employed in general practices by GP type and local health board, at every quarterly snapshot date.

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

  Fully qualified permanent GPs: Includes partners, providers, salaried and retainers only.

  GP practitioners: Includes partners, providers and salaried GPs only.

  GP locum: Is a GP who deputises temporarily at a practice, usually to cover for an absent GP practitioner.

  GP retainer: Is a registered GP practitioner who has entered the GP Retainer Scheme, and typically works reduced hours.

  GP registrar: Sometimes called a GP trainee, are qualified doctors who are training to become a GP through a period of training in general practice and hospitals.

  F2: Are doctors with a full GMC registration in their second year of postgraduate medical training.

• Data collection or calculation:

  Figures for headcounts are unique counts. So a person who has more than one contract in the same local health board (LHB) has been counted once in that LHB. However, a person who has a contract in more than one LHB would appear once against each LHB. Therefore the figures cannot be summed by LHB. Similarly, a person who has more than one contract in the same GP practitioner role has been counted once in that role, but a person who has a contract in more than one role would appear once against each role (the GP practitioner total figure is not the sum of the individual GP practitioner roles).

  Figures for FTE count towards the GP type and health board each contract is with. Therefore the FTE figures for each health board will sum to the Wales figure and the sum of the FTE of GP practitioners, retainers and locums will sum to the FTE for 'fully qualified GPs', subject to small rounding differences.

  The Wales National Workforce Reporting System (WNWRS) provides a secure web based tool developed to capture information on staff working in general practices in Wales.

  In broad terms, the system works by practice managers inputting details of their staff onto the system, confirming the details every quarter. Data is then extracted on the last day of each quarter (March, June, September, December). NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) perform validations to improve data quality before anonymised data are shared with Welsh Government statisticians to validate further and produce these official statistics.

  Data from other sources supplement the data from WNWRS, these include:

  • Locum Hub Wales (LHW): number of locums working in practices during the quarter up to the snapshot date. • NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR), which is used to count registrar GPs and F2 trainees.

  All locums who were active in the quarter are now counted from the 31 March 2024 data, including locum work in local health board managed practices that were not recorded through Locum Hub Wales. See the quality report for further information.

  The increase in GP registrars from September 2020 is explained partly by new starters entering the role in August and being counted for the first time and a change to the training model whereby GP registrars spend longer on rotation at GP practices and more GP registrars have been recruited.

  Changes to clusters:

  The Dwyfor & North Meirionnydd cluster changed as of 1 April 2021 as some practices moved in from the South Meirionnydd cluster.

  The South Meirionnydd cluster changed as of 1 April 2021 as some practices moved to the Dwyfor & North Meirionnydd cluster.

• Statistical quality:

  Full-time equivalent (FTE) data is available from 31-Dec-2021 onwards.

  March 2020 data: 2 out of the 404 active practices did not supply data or did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the WNWRS. These practices did supply initial data through an Excel spreadsheet in late 2019, which was used to pre-populate the WNWRS before the system went live for practices. Therefore the data provided in the initial spreadsheet has been used for these two practices. Note that both practices reported that there were no GP practitioners at the practice, but there were wider practice staff reported. At the time of reporting, the practices may have been using GP locums rather than GP practitioners. Note this does not affect data on registrars which is sourced from a different data collection system.

  June 2020 data: 46 practices out of the 402 active practices with staff did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to June 2020 (they last confirmed between January and March 2020). An additional 50 practices did not modify data in the quarter up to June 2020 (although they did view data in that quarter). 3 practices updated their data shortly after the snapshot date (on 2 July).

  September 2020 data: 6 practices out of the 399 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to September 2020 (they last confirmed between April and June 2020).

  December 2020 data: 36 practices out of the 396 active practices with staff did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to December 2020.

  March 2021 data: 9 practices out of the 396 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to March 2021.

  June 2021 data: All active practices confirmed their data as being up-to-date in the quarter up to June 2021.

  September 2021 data: 11 practices out of the 391 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to September 2021.

  December 2021 data: 30 practices out of the 390 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to December 2021.

  March 2022 data: 6 practices out of the 388 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to March 2022.

  June 2022 data: 11 practices out of the 386 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to June 2022.

  September 2022 data: 16 practices out of the 386 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to September 2022.

  December 2022 data: 10 practices out of the 383 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to December 2022.

  March 2023 data: 2 practices out of the 383 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to March 2023.

  June 2023 data: 20 practices out of the 379 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to June 2023.

  September 2023 data: 0 practices out of the 378 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to September 2023.

  December 2023 data: 0 practices out of the 374 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to December 2023.

  March 2024 data: 0 practices out of the 374 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to March 2024.

  June 2024 data: 0 practices out of the 372 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to June 2024.

  September 2024 data: 0 practices out of the 371 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to September 2024.

  December 2024 data: 0 practices out of the 370 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to December 2024.

  March 2025 data: 0 practices out of the 370 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to March 2025.

  June 2025 data: 0 practices out of the 370 active practices did not confirm their data was up-to-date in the quarter up to June 2025.

• Related reports:
  • General practice workforce

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

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