Are you curious about how your ICB compares with others when it comes to GP practice staffing levels? Find out what practice manager, clinical staff and GP recruitment looks like in your area as shown on our maps
Practice manager staffing levels
Perhaps surprisingly, there are more patients per practice manager (PM) in the south east of England, with the Home Counties in particular having fewer PMs (see interactive map below).
As we will see with the other maps, more rural areas tend to have fewer patients per PM – this is almost certainly a reflection of smaller but more dispersed patient populations. Rurality is also a factor in the global sum funding formula, meaning they are likely to have more funding. This is offset by the extra challenges faced by rural practices.
GP staffing levels
It is a similar story when we look at GP numbers. The highest number of patients to GP is in the south east. Four London ICBs are in the bottom eight when it comes to GPs per patient, while the rest of this group is made up of Home Counties ICBs. The ICBs with the most number of GPs per capita are in the south west.
Clinical team staffing levels
When we look at patients per clinician, this is even more stark. A clinician includes GPs, nurses and other roles involved in direct patient care such as paramedics, podiatrists, dieticians, physician associates, pharmacists and others. The bottom five ICBs for clinical staffing levels are the five London ICBs.
Later on, we will look at how deprivation and funding are correlated to staffing levels.
Cogora’s General Practice Workforce white paper, which includes more data and the full methodology for calculating numbers of staff at practice level, can be accessed in full here.
