National General Practice Profiles

Introduction

These profiles are designed to support GPs, primary care networks (PCNs), clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and local authorities to ensure that they are providing and commissioning effective and appropriate healthcare services for their local population.

In addition to viewing individual practice profiles, you can view summary profiles for PCNs, CCGs and other higher geographies. Each practice can be compared with the CCG or PCN and England.

Note: PCNs are new entities and we are very keen to provide these new organisations with data but there is inevitably a risk attached to being so responsive. Please consult this document to understand the technical background for PCN data and the caveats that need to be kept in mind when using it.

Using a variety of graphical displays such as spine charts and population pyramids, the tool presents a range of practice-level indicators drawn from the latest available data, including:

• Local demography
• Quality and Outcomes Framework domains
• Cancer Services
• Antibiotic prescribing
• Patient satisfaction

The profiles do not provide an exhaustive list of primary care indicators, but they do allow a consistent approach to comparing and benchmarking across England.

For more information consult the User guide and FAQs.

Profiles are generated for all practices in QOF 2018/19 with a list size of at least 750 patients and for other practices if they had according to NHS digital in April 2019 a list size of at least 750 patients and there is valid GP patient survey data for the practice. For details see: Rules for inclusion and list of included practices.