2012 - 2023
Official Statistics
Published: 12 December 2023
This publication presents data on the General Practitioner (GP) workforce contracted to work in Scottish practices in the years 2012 to 2023. This publication was previously released by Public Health Scotland (PHS) and included information on GP practices and their registered patients. With this 2023 release from NHS Education for Scotland (NES), we focus only on workforce data. A separate publication on GP practices and patients will be released by PHS on 19 December 2023.
The data in this report are sourced from the National Primary Care Clinician Database (NPCCD) which is a dynamic, administrative database. The full time series is refreshed and updated with each annual release and figures for a given year may therefore differ slightly from previously published data where administrative information has been corrected or updated.
Previous GP headcount and practice list size publications can be found on the PHS website.
For workforce information on all medical staff employed directly by the NHS, please see the NHS Scotland Workforce publications produced by NES.