Earlier this month the PM claimed there are now a “record number” of GPs in England, while the Liberal Democrats say the number’s down since the last election. In fact, neither claim tells the full story. We’ve dug into the data 👇
on the same day that “there are 850 fewer GPs in the country than there were in 2019”.
If you discount trainees and look at FTE figures, the number of fully qualified GPs has actually fallen since December 2019. These figures measure ‘headcount’—in other words, the number of individual GPs employed, without taking account of the hours they work. This suggests that year-on-year increases in the total number of GPs may be fuelled by a sharp rise in the number of trainees.
, after completing a year of hospital-based training rotations. This was increased from 18 months for all trainees joining the programme after August 2021.
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