FPS General Medical Services Statistics for NI 2025/26
This annual report presents information on Patients, General Practitioners and GP Practices in Northern Ireland between April 2025 and March 2026.
Applies to Northern Ireland
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This report contains high level summary information on Patients, General Practitioners and GP Practices in Northern Ireland.
Information is provided at Northern Ireland level with further breakdowns presented at Local Commissioning Group (LCG), Local Government District (LGD) and GP Federation level.
Revision Notice:
GMS 2025/26 Annual Statistics
Date 16th June 2026
Following publication of the 2025/26 Annual GMS Official Statistics, a methodological issue was identified affecting the calculation of Average BSO Payments per Registered Patient. All relevant figures have been revised today.
Issue identified
When GP practices transfer to management by a Health and Social Care Trust, the Business Services Organisation (BSO) no longer makes payments to those practices. However, the registered patient populations for these practices were retained in the denominator, resulting in a mismatch between numerator and denominator and a downward bias in average payment estimates.
Action taken
To ensure a consistent and unbiased measure, revisions:
Excluded all payments to practices under Trust management for part or all of the year from the numerator
Excluded Trust-managed GP practice populations from the denominator
Impact
Affected data for 2022/23 to 2025/26.
Nine GP practices were included in scope, having been managed by a Health and Social Care Trust for part of the period.
Total payments for Northern Ireland, and relevant Local Commissioning Groups (LCGs), Local Government Districts (LGDs) and Federations reduced where payment was made to practices by BSO for part of the year, when the practices were not managed by a Trust.
Northern Ireland averages increased as a result of the revision along with averages for LCGs, LGDs and Federations relating to impacted Practices.
Impact was restricted to specified geographies; all others remained unaffected.
At Northern Ireland level, the revised average payment per patient for 2025/26 is £188, compared with the previously reported figure of £184, an increase of 2.2%. The total BSO payment reduced by £0.5m to £382.8m (0.1%).
At Local Commissioning Group (LCG) level, two areas were affected, with revised average payments per patient increasing from £189 to £206 in the Western LCG (9.0%), and from £173 to £179 in the Southern LCG (3.5%).
At Local Government District (LGD) level, three areas were affected, with the average payment per patient increasing by £33 (19.0%) to £207 in Fermanagh and Omagh, by £16 (8.8%) to £197 in Newry, Mourne and Down, and by £10 (5.1%) to £208 in Derry City and Strabane.
At GP Federation level, three Federations were affected, with the average payment per patient increasing by £7 (3.5%) in Derry, £18 (10.5%) in Newry and District and £32 (18.2%) in South West.
Revisions to payment data from 2022/23 onwards are provided in the Annex Tables.
Outputs affected
Annual GMS Statistics Tables
Table 6.1 (LCG), Table 6.2 (LGD) and Table 6.3 (Federation) from 2022/23 to 2025/26.
A full list of the areas affected is provided in the Annex Tables.
Family Practitioner Services GMS Statistics for Northern Ireland 2025/26
Key Facts payment bullet point
Figures 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and associated commentary - geographies as listed in Annex Tables only and detailed in Data Revision note.
Family Practitioner Services GMS Summary Key Facts 2025/26
Average payments per patient – Western and Southern LCGs only
Updates to this page
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Revised figures for the 2025/26 Annual GMS Official Statistics have now been published. The issue arose because patient populations for practices managed by a Local Commissioning Group (Health Trust) continued to be included in the calculation of Average BSO Payments per Registered Patient, while BSO no longer made payments to these practices. This created a mismatch and led to a downward bias in average payment figures. The methodology has now been corrected. Revisions affect data from 2022/23 to 2025/26 and are limited to areas containing practices managed by a Trust. In these areas, average payments per patient have increased, while total payments have decreased slightly. All other areas are unaffected. Further details of the changes are available in the Revision Notice, together with the revised html report, tables and Key Facts Summary here. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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