NHS Jobs Adverts in General Practice, Q1 2022-23 to Q2 2025-26 [Management Information]

There are several steps taken to add value and improve data quality prior to publication. 

1. Only job adverts from organisations classified as being a general practice organisation type are extracted from NHS Jobs.
2. Only adverts that are Permanent or Fixed-Term contracts are included.
3. Adverts with an FTE > 2 will be divided by 37.5 as it is assumed that working hours have been entered into the FTE field instead.
4. Students and Healthcare Scientists are removed due to the negligible amount of adverts placed in these staff groups.
5. General Practices' location postcodes are used to map to NHS England Regions, ICBs and Sub-ICBs for each practice.
6. Any practices outside England are removed.
7. Any organisations or job adverts that are not general practices are removed, such as PCNs or secondary care job adverts.
8. Test adverts or those placed by organisations such as hospitals, school practices and extended access clinics are removed.
9. All listed job adverts are linked to ODS data for prescribing settings and to identify further adverts not placed by general practices.
10. Further cleansing steps are then taken to ensure the data is appropriate for publication, including removal of duplicate entries.

Job Adverts for General Practitioners (Table 3)

Individual job types or roles can only be identified within the "Job Title" field within the NHS Jobs data extract, which is a free-text field at the point of entry by users. This lack of standardisation in the data presents difficulties in trying to accurately quantify specific Job Roles that have been advertised, that are listed within the NWD. To attempt to identify adverts solely for GPs we have conducted an extensive search across this field which has allowed the generation of the data in Table 3. Given the difficulty in identifying these adverts, we have not made further attempts to label them in a way that users may recognise within some of our other Primary Care Workforce publications, such as "Salaried GPs", or "GP Partners". The numbers shown for GP job adverts will include the previous two examples mentioned, and also roles such as Locums, or roles that have been filled through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS). As such, they should be treated with some caution. In conducting this analysis across the Q1 2022/23 to Q2 2025/26 period we found the following;

1. Between Q1 2022/23 and Q2 2025/26, recruiting practices/organisations in England placed 83,811 adverts for all practice staff.
2. Of these 83,811 adverts, 11,061 (13.2%) were identified as being for General Practitioners.
3. Of the 11,061 GP adverts, 10,299 (93.1%) were classified in the Medical and Dental staff group. The remainder were spread across the remaining staff groups.
4. Of the 18,907 adverts classified in the Medical and Dental Staff group, 10,299 (54.5%) were for GPs. Across the three-year period, this fluctuated between 48.2% and 60.9% within each quarter.

Upon receipt of data each quarter we will re-run the exercise to ensure we continue to capture as many GP job adverts as possible through examination of the Job Title field. As also mentioned in the Data Quality section, we have labelled every advert as either "GP" or "Non-GP" so users are able to distinguish between these two separate groups.