Overview
The National Primary Care Clinicians Database (NPCCD) is a centralised database of GP and general practice details, held by NSS but with data maintained by NHS Boards.
It currently contains details of all GPs and Optometrists/Ophthalmic Medical Practitioners validated to work in the Board area and locum for others. The data is used for onward feeding of other NHS systems, such as for verification and payment purposes as well as source data for National extracts as appropriate.
Following the go live of New CHI, NPCCD is now the single source of truth for all GP practitioner and practice data in Scotland. Legislation states that all practitioners must be on the performer list (NPCCD) and validated prior to commencing work.
Work is ongoing to include Dental practitioners as well. More information on this can be found on the NSS NPCCD publication page.
What data are published?
The NES Datagroup receive an extract from NPPCD of all GPs working on 30 September each year. These data are used in the GP Headcount workforce publication.
This includes information on the
The data are also used in the Primary Care Workforce Survey to weight the results.