UK GP Practice Patient Registrations by Clinical Commissioning Group

Quarterly snapshots of patient registration numbers extracted from the GP Payments system managed by NHS Digital. The data provides an accurate count of patients registered at General Practitioner practices, aggregated at the Clinical Commissioning Group level. This dataset is discontinued, with the last recorded update in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in primary care patient populations based on quarterly snapshots
• Model healthcare resource allocation based on patient registration numbers
• Assess regional disparities in GP access based on Clinical Commissioning Group aggregations

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative NHS Digital GP Payments system
• Snapshots are described as accurate for each quarterly date

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NHS Digital

Collection Method

Extracted as quarterly snapshots from the GP Payments system

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:51.992459; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom (Clinical Commissioning Group level)