Information on GP Performers

All GPs in post by NHS board and gender

The table below shows the number of GPs in post in Scotland by NHS board and gender for 2005 to 2007.

Note: NHS Argyll & Clyde was dissolved on 31st March 2006.  With effect from 1st April 2006, the council area of Argyll & Bute is included in a now enlarged NHS Highland area. Meanwhile, the rest of the former NHS Argyll & Clyde area is now under the responsibility of an enlarged NHS Greater Glasgow (now renamed NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde). The table below shows the information by these newly reconfigured NHS boards. Comparative tables in excel show the information for 2004 and 2005 with the old configuration of boards.

All GPs ¹ in post by NHS Board ² and gender; 2005 - 2007 ³
Headcount


<sup>r Revised. Figures for 2005 & 2006 may differ from those previously published due to improvements in source data quality.
x= Not applicable

1 Excludes Performer locums
2 For a GP to work in an NHS Board, legislation requires that they must first be registered on that Board's Performer List. Each individual GP performer is counted once per NHS Board that they work in, even if they occupy more than one post within the Board.
3 Data as at 30 September.
4 The Scotland total comprises actual headcount of GPs, rather than GP posts therefore it may not equal the sum of the different types of GP.
5 NHS Argyll & Clyde was dissolved on 31st March 2006.  With effect from 1st April 2006, the council area of Argyll & Bute is included in a now enlarged NHS Highland area. Meanwhile, the rest of the former NHS Argyll & Clyde area is now under the responsibility of an enlarged NHS Greater Glasgow (now renamed NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde).

Source:  GMS Warehouse, ISD Scotland. (Data extract taken at 20 November 2007).</sup>

Related information:
Excel version of this table for all GP performer types ^(70KB)
CHP/CHCP level for 2007 (also available for all GP performer typesin Excel)  ^(58KB)