The least busy 10 GPs in Birmingham and Solihull with the fewest number of patients

The GP surgeries in Birmingham and Solihull with least patients per doctor have been identified in NHS figures.

Analysis of the snapshot figures published by NHS Digital on 31 August this year show which surgery has the lowest patient-to-doctor ratio for the area covered by the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System (ICB).

The data looks at how many patients each GP has to take care of on average in a each practice within NHS Integrated Care Systems across the country.

On average, there are 1565.0 patients for every full-time-equivalent GP within the Birmingham and Solihull ICB. This means the NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB has the 10th fewest patients per GP out of all of the ICBs across the country.

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has the fewest amount of patients per GP on average, at 1436.9. The North West London ICB has the most at 2161.3.

Regionally, there are 1617 patients on average per GP in the Midlands - this means the region has the third fewest patients per GP in the country. The North West has the fewest patients per GP, at 1,557, while London has the most, at 1,956.

An average GP practice in England has nearly 10,000 patients on its books, figures published by NHS Digital show.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: “Each General Practice is required to provide services to meet the reasonable needs of its patients. There is no government recommendation for how many patients should be assigned to a GP, as the demands each patient places on their GP are different and can be affected by many different factors – including rurality and patient demographics.”

The figures, a snapshot from August 31 of this year, were published by NHS Digital and include trainee GP and locums. You can see the busiest GP surgeries in Solihull and Birmingham here.

Here, we can reveal the busiest GP surgeries in within the Birmingham and Solihull ICB.