Fully qualified GPs (headcount and full-time equivalent) by sex and local health board

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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
d8947742-b61d-4598-8a27-47ae82193dd2

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables

This shows the number of (headcount) and full-time equivalent (FTE) fully qualified GPs employed in general practices by sex and local health board, 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.

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.

Figures for FTE count towards the sex 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 male, female, other/unknown and not stated will sum to the FTE for 'persons', subject to small rounding differences.

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 and FTE as at the snapshot date.

Statistical quality

Note that locums are not required to enter their sex 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