What does the latest workforce survey say about staffing in Wakefield?

The latest quarterly survey of general practice staff in practices across Yorkshire and Humber was published last week. There were several themes from the data:

  • The number of practices continues to reduce with mergers and consolidation of practices. In the last quarter the number of practices again reduced from 765 to 757
  • The affect of initiatives to encourage newly qualified nurses to have a career in general practice can be seen with 12% of GP nurses under 34 years of age
  • The number of GPs under 34 has reduced from 23% to 20%. This might because newly qualified GPs are not taking up posts locally. It raises the interesting questions about where they actually are going?
  • The report also shows the continued huge inter practice variation.

Of 136 practices that commented about their risks and mitigation's only one practice said it had no workforce risks.

The risks could be summarises under the following headings:

  • Recruitment / retention /retirement
  • Workload
  • Resource constraint
  • Sickness, ill health and statutory leave
  • Service reconfiguration
  • Premises

The mitigation's and actions to deal with these risks include:

  • Education and training
  • Skill mixing solutions
  • Federating, merging and collaboration
  • Vacations and outsourcing
  • Demand management

In Wakefield, as a result of investment by the CCG, and before that the PCT, and before that the HA we are bucking trends.

In Wakefield we have:

  • The second highest number of full time equivalent clinical staff per 1000 patients
  • The third lowest numbers of patients per one full time equivalent GPs
  • The lowest number of patients per one full time equivalent GP nurse
  • The lowest number of patient per one full time equivalent practice management staff

Below are charts of:

Full time equivalent clinical staff per 1000 patients. GPs are blue, GP nurses green and other staff with direct patient care e.g. HCAs and phlebotomists are purple.


The number of patients per full time GPs. 

The number of patients per full time GP Nurse. 


The number of patients per full time practice management staff. 


It all makes very interesting reading!


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