General practice - demographics data visualisation
Up to 31 March 2022

About this release

This release by Public Health Scotland shows a data visualisation of a range of GP practice demographics data, broken down at practice, HSCP, NHS Board and Scotland level. The most recent data presented are up to 31 March 2022.

The visualisation shows practice list sizes broken down by age, sex and deprivation (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation). It also highlights changes in practice populations between quarters, the number of patients registered in the last year and patients living in care homes.

Main points

• As at 31 March, there were 5,861,915 registered patients in Scotland.
• The number of registered patients in Scotland has increased by 0.5% over the past two years.

GP demographics for Scotland , 31st March 2022 Statistics show a slight increase ( 0.5%) in the overall number of patients registered with a GP in Scotland in the last 2 years. The population pyramid shows the age and gender breakdown of the registered patients at March 31st 2022.

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GP practice demographics for Scotland, 31 March 2022

The number of patients registered in GP practices is larger than population. For more information please see Appendix 1 of the latest GP Workforce And Practice List Sizes publication.

Further information

For trend analysis of the GP work force and practice list sizes please see the annual GP Workforce and Practice List Sizes publication.

Lists of all GPs and practices in Scotland are updated quarterly on the General Practice web page.