Family Practitioner Services Statistics for Northern Ireland 2017/18
This annual report presents summary activity and payment statistics related to Northern Ireland General Medical Services, Community Dentistry, Community Ophthalmic and Community Pharmaceutical services.
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The statistics provide summary information on the Northern Ireland primary care workforce, their activities and associated payments, and with regard to service accessibility. Figures are presented at Northern Ireland, Local Commissioning Group, and Local Government District level for the latest business year and earlier years where available.
Revision Note: Following publication of the Family Practitioner Services Statistics for Northern Ireland 2017/18, a data quality issue came to light with regard to the Ophthalmic Practitioner figures. It transpired that the administrative process for adding the date on which practitioners were added/removed from the central register had not been applied consistently over time. This resulted in not all additions/removals from the register being picked up by the programme which collates the statistics.
The impact of the revision has been to reduce the number of registered Optometrists from 698 to 606 in 2018 and 685 to 597 in 2017.
Table 3.3 in Annex 3 of the detailed Annex Tables has been revised to reflect these changes, as has Fig 3.1, and associated commentary, in the main report along with the relevant bullet points under the ‘Ophthalmic Services Key Points’.
Publication revised 18 December 2018
Last updated 19 December 2018 + show all updates
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Table 3.3 in Annex 3 of the detailed Annex Tables has been revised to reflect changes to the number of Ophthalmic Practitioner , as has Fig 3.1, and associated commentary, in the main report along with the relevant bullet points under the ‘Ophthalmic Services Key Points’.
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First published.