Request

Can you kindly confirm how many live "Practitioner Members" there are @ 30th June 2025 and how many Practitioner Membership Records are not presently updated to 31st March 2024 please?

Please provide your response in the same format as FOI 02107 provided on 15th August 2024

Response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested.

As of 30 June 2025, there were 61,426 live practitioner members with 90,328 open practitioner employments. However, please note that some members have more than one open practitioner employment.

47,749 practitioner membership records are not presently updated to 31 March 2024 in respect of 81,442 open practitioner employments. There are several reasons why records may not have been updated. This could be because practitioner members have not yet submitted their certificates, there are queries on the certificates, or certificates are missing from earlier years, which is preventing an update to later years.

Please see a copy of the table attached.

Members may have multiple ongoing posts, updated to different points. Some posts may be officer posts; these have not been included in the figures.

Annual contribution data is only available when an annual update has been processed onto the member record for the respective employment.

A post not being fully updated does not mean the information has not been submitted by the employer; it may have been submitted and been unable to process onto the member record due to validation issues.

Definitions:

General Practitioner – An employment marked as having capacity code 03 (Medical Staff) or 10 (Ophthalmic Practitioner), and Employment Type 5 (Principal Practitioner), 6 (Assistant Practitioner) or 9 (GP Locum/ Locum Practitioner)

General Dental Practitioner – An employment marked as having capacity code 08 (Dental Staff), and Employment Type 5 (Principal Practitioner), 6 (Assistant Practitioner) or 9 (GP Locum/ Locum Practitioner)

Data Queries

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