Fully qualified GPs (headcount) by sex and full-time and part-time

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Next update expected:1 July 2026

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17th March 2026
Dataset first published.

Main information

Designation
Official statistics
Data provider
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
Data source
Wales National Workforce Reporting System (WNWRS)
Time period covered
December 2021 to June 2025

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables

This shows the number of (headcount) fully qualified GPs employed in general practices by sex and full-time and part-time, at every quarterly snapshot date since 31-Dec-21.

Data collection or calculation

After all contracted hours were summed for each GP, this shows the number of part-time (less than 37.5 hours per week) and full-time (37.5 hours or more per week) GPs by sex.

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 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.

Statistical quality

A number of practices did not confirm their WNWRS data as being up-to-date in the quarter up to each snapshot date. See the statistical release for more information.

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