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<p>The number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in general practice in
each year since 2015 has been provided in the following table. Data is not included
prior to 2015 as improvements were made to the methodology for recording all staff
working in general practice in September 2015 and data prior to this is not comparable.</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of all doctors in general practice</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2015</p></td><td><p>34,429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>35,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2017</p></td><td><p>34,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>34,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2019</p></td><td><p>34,862</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p><p><em>Notes:
</em></p><ol><li>Data as at 30 September 2019.</li><li>Figures shown do not include
general practice staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments,
specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and
other alternative settings.</li><li>Figures contain estimates, for practices that
did not provide fully valid General Medical Practice general practitioner (GP), nurse
or direct patient care staff records.</li><li>The figures presented include GP registrars
and GP locums.</li><li>Data collected and published prior to September 2015 is not
comparable due to a change in data collection methodology.</li><li>Data must be compared
from the same time point in the year, therefore September data is provided to allow
comparison for the earliest available data.</li><li>FTE refers to the proportion of
full-time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate
they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In Registrars'
contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours. To ensure consistency, these FTEs have been converted
to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours in the table.</li></ol><p><strong>
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