General Medical Practitioners, 2002 to 2012

Statistics include data on practitioners in post on 30 September 2012. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 21 March 2012.

The key points from the latest release are:

• the number of practitioners in Wales (excluding registrars, retainers and locums) was 2,015 at 30 September 2012, 7 fewer than the previous year and an increase of 207 (11.4 per cent) since 2002
• in 2012 there were 474 GP partnerships in Wales, 42 (8.1 per cent) fewer than in 2002
• since 2002 the number of registered patients per practitioner, based on the number of practitioners, has fallen from 1,679 to 1,575 (6.2 per cent)
• the age distribution has also changed since 2002. The workforce continues its trend to become older. Fewer practitioners are aged under 45 (863 to 804, down 6.8 per cent) while more are aged 55 or over (310 to 472, up 52.3 per cent)
• the percentage of GPs who are female has increased. In 2002 female GPs accounted for 30.4 per cent of the total, in 2012 they accounted for 44.1 per cent

Further information

StatsWales website (external link)

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5064
Email: stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

March 2014 (provisional - to be confirmed on Due out soon page)