General Medical Services Statistics
Information published is derived from the National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS) system, Family Practitioner Services (FPS) system and payment records including Global Sum Payment, and the Common Practitioner Model (CPM). It includes information on the number of General Practitioners (GPs), GP Practices and registered patients in Northern Ireland including registration activity and payments processed by BSO towards the overall cost of GP Services. There is no information relating to the treatment of patients or the waiting times associated with GP surgeries.
Responsible Statistician:
Gerard McMullan
Gerard.McMullan@hscni.net
Current Annual Publication
Date Published: 28th June 2022.
Date of next release: 8th June 2023.
The statistics will be released on this page at 9.30am. If you have issues accessing the information it can also be found on the gov.uk site
Presents information on patients, General Practitioners and GP Surgeries in Northern Ireland. Also included is information relating to the number of new patient registrations processed, including those of a Non-UK origin.
Annual Practice Breakdowns
Registered Patients by Practice, Age and Sex
Quarterly General Medical Services Statistics
Date Published: 9th February 2023
Date of next release: 8th June 2023
The statistics will be released on this page at 9.30am. If you have issues accessing the information it can also be found on the gov.uk site
This quarterly series is a subset of the annual information with data provided for selected key tables. The quarterly updates within a year should be treated as provisional and may be revised when figures are finalised to produce the end of year annual report.
Family Practitioner Services GMS Statistics: To QE December 2022
Quarterly GP Practice Reference Files
GP Practice lists are required by users of the GP Prescribing data so that the prescribing data can be standardised based on the size of the GP Practice. They were previously published following the release of the GMS official statistics.
This information is now contained within the Family Practitioner Service GMS Statistics spreadsheet under the Quarterly General Medical Services Statistics section above. Please navigate to Table 1.7 to obtain the numbers of patients registered with each practice on a quarterly basis.
Quality Documentation
Listed below are various documents to support the publication of FPS GMS Statistics.
FPS GMS Background Quality Report
FPS GMS Quality Assurance of Administrative Data Report
Previous publications
Previous publications can be found here.