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answer text: In January 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, the borough of Oldham had 134.6 full time equivalent doctors in general practice (GP). The following table shows the number of GP registered patients in the borough of Oldham at the start of each year from 2014 to 2024, as the data is only available from 2014: Date Patients registered with a GP 1 January 2014 231,784 1 January 2015 234,021 1 January 2016 237,404 1 January 2017 240,245 1 January 2018 242,836 1 January 2019 245,764 1 January 2020 248,153 1 January 2021 248,533 1 January 2022 250,048 1 January 2023 251,931 1 January 2024 255,526 Source: The data is taken from NHS Digital, and is available at the following link: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigital.nhs.uk%2Fdata-and-information%2Fpublications%2Fstatistical%2Fpatients-registered-at-a-gp-practice%23about-this-publication&data=05%7C02%7CNatasha.Dixon%40dhsc.gov.uk%7Cfef36c187acf4aecdd7b08dc3467de70%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638442867915867960%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=N3jTJ0fP0N%2BfqXaAWorivXyrsxbadYwphtTcStJPhPQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/patients-registered-at-a-gp-practice#about-this-publication Note: Practices in Oldham were identified using the February 2024 release of the National Statistics Postcode Lookup and their postcode in the registered patient dataset from the time of publishing.
answer given date: 2024-02-29+00:00
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