Number of wider practice staff employed in general practices (headcount and full-time equivalent), by staff category and area

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

Data values	Data description	Staff	Date	Area
7,611	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Wales
1,867	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
1,028	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Hywel Dda University Health Board
836	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Swansea Bay University Health Board
1,056	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
944	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
1,465	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
469	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Powys Teaching Health Board
205	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Anglesey
170	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Arfon
143	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Central & South Denbighshire
107	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Conwy East
167	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Conwy West
140	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North East Flintshire
90	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Dwyfor & North Meirionnydd
101	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North West Flintshire
91	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Meirionnydd
142	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Flintshire
185	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Denbighshire
117	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Wrexham
61	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North & West Wrexham
157	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Central Wrexham
178	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Amman/Gwendraeth
140	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Llanelli
133	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Ceredigion
135	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Pembrokeshire
123	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Ceredigion
174	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Pembrokeshire
146	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Taf / Tywi
116	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Afan
142	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	BayHealth
137	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Bridgend East Network
117	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Bridgend North Network
67	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Bridgend West Network
98	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	CityHealth
95	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cwmtawe
102	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Llwchwr
120	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Neath
80	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Penderi
107	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Upper Valleys
126	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cardiff East
111	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cardiff South East
70	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	City & Cardiff South
189	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cardiff North
143	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cardiff South West
117	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Cardiff West
150	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Central Vale
88	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Eastern Vale
68	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Western Vale
72	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Cynon
68	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Merthyr Tydfil
75	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Rhondda
85	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Taf Ely
78	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Cynon
49	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Merthyr Tydfil
115	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Rhondda
85	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Taf Ely
79	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Blaenau Gwent East
84	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Blaenau Gwent West
136	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Caerphilly East
155	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Caerphilly North
118	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Caerphilly South
188	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Monmouthshire North
126	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Monmouthshire South
153	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Newport East
198	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Newport West
114	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Torfaen North
118	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Torfaen South
73	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	Mid Powys
232	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	North Powys
165	Headcount	Wider practice staff	31/03/2020	South Powys
7,572	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Wales
1,859	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
1,035	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Hywel Dda University Health Board
843	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Swansea Bay University Health Board
1,033	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
939	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
1,447	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
468	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Powys Teaching Health Board
207	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Anglesey
172	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Arfon
139	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Central & South Denbighshire
107	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Conwy East
165	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Conwy West
139	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	North East Flintshire
89	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Dwyfor & North Meirionnydd
99	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	North West Flintshire
91	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	South Meirionnydd
144	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	South Flintshire
187	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	North Denbighshire
122	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	South Wrexham
63	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	North & West Wrexham
146	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Central Wrexham
184	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Amman/Gwendraeth
141	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	Llanelli
132	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	North Ceredigion
137	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	North Pembrokeshire
125	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	South Ceredigion
173	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	South Pembrokeshire
144	Headcount	Wider practice staff	30/06/2020	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

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

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

  Wider practice staff: captures all nurses, direct patient care and admin staff. These three groups cover all ‘non GP’ staff in primary care.

• Data collection or calculation:

  Figures are unique staff counts. So if one person is employed multiple times in one local health board (LHB) or staff category, they are only counted once (but if the person is also employed in another LHB or staff category, then they would be counted once in each LHB or staff category). Therefore figures cannot be summed by LHB or staff category.

  Figures for FTE count towards the staff group 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 nurses, direct patient care and admin staff will sum to the FTE for 'wider practice staff', 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.

  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.

  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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