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Table 2 Characteristics of practices at various levels of European Economic Area (EEA) and elsewhere qualified participation

From: The potential impact of Brexit and immigration policies on the GP workforce in England: a cross-sectional observational study of GP qualification region and the characteristics of the areas and population they served in September 2016

  

Qualified in the EEA

Qualified elsewhere

All

None

(0%, 20%]

(20%, 40%]

40% or more

None

(0%, 20%]

(20%, 40%]

40% or more

Number of practices

6477

5284

689

331

173

3055

973

930

1519

Median pay per patient (£)

133.0 (119.7, 153.1)

132.8 (119.4, 153.1)

134.4 (121.0, 152.8)

132.5 (121.3, 151.2)

134.2 (122.1, 159.1)

135.0 (121.5, 158.3)

134.2 (122.8, 152.5)

132.2 (118.5, 152.2)

128.2 (115.7, 146.6)

Median residence IMD of average practice patient

21.4 (13.7, 31.3)

21.2 (13.6, 31.5)

19.6 (13.0, 28.2)

24.1 (15.4, 31.8)

26.7 (19.5, 34.9)

18.3 (12.3, 27.9)

18.1 (12.0, 26.5)

22.6 (15.5, 32.5)

28.8 (20.5, 37.0)

Median FTE of GPs in these practices

Per 10,000 patients

5.2 (4.1, 6.4)

5.2 (4.1, 6.4)

5.6 (4.7, 6.8)

5.0 (3.9, 6.0)

4.2 (3.1, 5.1)

5.3 (4.2, 6.6)

5.7 (4.8, 6.9)

5.1 (4.2, 6.1)

4.6 (3.6, 5.7)

Per 1000 patients aged 75 or older

6.8 (5.1, 9.6)

6.8 (5.0, 9.6)

7.2 (5.5, 9.6)

6.5 (4.9, 9.2)

6.3 (4.5, 10.2)

6.4 (4.9, 8.9)

7.1 (5.4, 9.4)

7.0 (5.3, 10.1)

7.4 (5.2, 11.1)

Per 10,000 counts on the cumulative QOF register

8.9 (6.9, 11.3)

8.8 (6.9, 11.2)

9.7 (7.7, 12.6)

8.2 (6.8, 10.7)

7.1 (5.5, 9.6)

9.0 (7.1, 11.4)

9.7 (7.8, 12.3)

8.7 (7.0, 10.9)

8.0 (6.2, 10.4)

  1. A total of 3508 GPs (9.28%) were not linked to practices and could not be included in this table. Non-linkage varied greatly across NHS regions: London = 1160, Yorkshire and Humber = 2, Cumbria and North East = 3, Cheshire and Merseyside = 568, North Midlands = 12, Central Midlands = 1, East = 837, South West = 8, South East = 8, South Central = 293, Greater Manchester = 395, Unknown = 221)
  2. The characteristics were calculated on numbers of GPs, not FTE (FTE data by country of qualification was not available at the practice level)