The NHS workforce in numbers: facts on staffing and staff shortages in England

The NHS workforce in numbers: facts on staffing and staff shortages in England The data used in this report shows that there has been a recent sustained fall in the number of GPs relative to the size of the population across the UK nations. This does not appear to have happened since the 1960s. For the overall number of GPs to have kept pace with the number of people in the UK since 2014 some 3,400 more GPs would have been needed. The Nuffield Trust