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Figures for December 2019 - the latest data available from NHS Digital - show that there were 28,319 fully-qualified FTE GPs in England - almost unchanged from the 28,315 in September 2019.
But the loss of 277 fully-qualified FTE GPs over the full year to December 2019 means that in the four and a quarter years since former health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt's September 2015 pledge to recruit an extra 5,000 GPs by 2020/21, the fully-qualified FTE GP workforce has dropped by 1,084 - a 4% reduction.
The rapid decline in GP partners has continued too, the data confirm - with a loss of 224 FTE partners in the three months to December 2019 alone and a decline of 977 - 5% of the FTE partner workforce - between December 2018 and December 2019.
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But the loss of 277 fully-qualified FTE GPs over the full year to December 2019 means that in the four and a quarter years since former health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt's September 2015 pledge to recruit an extra 5,000 GPs by 2020/21, the fully-qualified FTE GP workforce has dropped by 1,084 - a 4% reduction.
The rapid decline in GP partners has continued too, the data confirm - with a loss of 224 FTE partners in the three months to December 2019 alone and a decline of 977 - 5% of the FTE partner workforce - between December 2018 and December 2019.
Fully-qualified GP workforce down 277 over the past year
The GP workforce lost 277 fully-qualified, full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors in the year to December 2019, official data show.
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