In 2006-07, the first year of the general practitioner (GP) patient survey, 9.8 per cent. of patients registered on the National Health Application Infrastructure Service (Exeter) were invited to take part in the GP patient survey. The breakdown by primary care trust (PCT) is shown in the following table .
The survey data for 2007-08 is currently being processed by Ipsos MORI, the appointed survey provider, and remains restricted and unavailable until official publication by the Information Centre for health and social care. Publication has been confirmed for the week commencing 14 July 2008.
PCT name Registered population Distributed surveys Percentage (registered population/distributed population) Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT 327,779 33,537 10.2 Barking and Dagenham PCT 178,197 30,599 17.2 Barnet PCT 344,581 50,183 14.6 Barnsley PCT 261,936 26,948 10.3 Bassetlaw PCT 115,689 5,771 5.0 Bath and North East Somerset PCT 178,469 16,524 9.3 Bedfordshire PCT 394,989 30,512 7.7 Berkshire East PCT 380,919 30,631 8.0 Berkshire West PCT 436,117 30,701 7.0 Bexley Care Trust 207,699 20,294 9.8 Birmingham East and North PCT 460,911 61,286 13.3 Blackburn with Darwen PCT 167,670 20,444 12.2 Blackpool PCT 170,987 12,598 7.4 Bolton PCT 291,180 37,481 12.9 Bournemouth and Poole PCT 342,142 30,948 9.0 Bradford and Airedale PCT 531,448 62,480 11.8 Brent Teaching PCT 326,590 59,494 18.2 Brighton and Hove City PCT 288,158 31,404 10.9 Bristol PCT 431,329 37,890 8.8 Bromley PCT 302,618 30,299 10.0 Buckinghamshire PCT 486,305 31,652 6.5 Bury PCT 188,327 21,740 11.5 Calderdale PCT 203,488 16,721 8.2 Cambridgeshire PCT 572,193 42,992 7.5 Camden PCT 253,642 38,999 15.4 Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT 447,024 26,754 6.0 Central Lancashire PCT 460,618 53,067 11.5 City and Hackney Teaching PCT 278,587 45,015 16.2 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT 550,731 43,961 8.0 County Durham PCT 581,477 39,433 6.8 Coventry Teaching PCT 352,455 39,096 11.1 Croydon PCT 337,807 44,884 13.3 Cumbria PCT 537,940 47,668 8.9 Darlington PCT 104,469 5,081 4.9 Derby City PCT 281,249 22,884 8.1 Derbyshire County PCT 713,240 55,016 7.7 Devon PCT 746,379 55,924 7.5 Doncaster PCT 328,163 24,560 7.5 Dorset PCT 403,090 26,027 6.5 Dudley PCT 304,568 27,112 8.9 Ealing PCT 341,707 62,986 18.4 East and North Hertfordshire PCT 527,054 35,822 6.8 East Lancashire PCT 401,009 38,567 9.6 East Riding of Yorkshire PCT 320,427 20,838 6.5 East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT 345,630 23,923 6.9 Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT 761,313 65,270 8.6 Enfield PCT 271,978 45,175 16.6 Gateshead PCT 227,066 19,708 8.7 Gloucestershire PCT 577,468 46,918 8.1 Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT 238,615 13,974 5.9 Greenwich Teaching PCT 259,476 41,332 15.9 Halton and St. Helens PCT 343,398 30,393 8.9 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 183,915 26,630 14.5 Hampshire PCT 1,214,618 84,033 6.9 Haringey Teaching PCT 266,162 53,536 20.1 Harrow PCT 208,096 20,105 9.7 Hartlepool PCT 104,314 8,100 7.8 Hastings and Rother PCT 191,325 20,303 10.6 Havering PCT 241,372 32,153 13.3 Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT 315,211 66,114 21.0 Herefordshire PCT 183,004 12,063 6.6 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT 227,434 20,482 9.0 Hillingdon PCT 254,322 34,620 13.6 Hounslow PCT 251,117 45,002 17.9 Hull PCT 287,979 33,021 11.5 Isle of Wight Healthcare PCT 147,030 9,641 6.6 Islington PCT 241,764 36,971 15.3 Kensington and Chelsea PCT 164,509 44,142 26.8 Kingston PCT 161,582 19,700 12.2 Kirklees PCT 398,952 47,863 12.0 Knowsley PCT 178,646 19,288 10.8 Lambeth PCT 344,309 47,237 13.7 Leeds PCT 769,537 68,064 8.8 Leicester City PCT 329,012 41,459 12.6 Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT 605,224 38,454 6.4 Lewisham PCT 279,555 41,649 14.9 Lincolnshire PCT 751,226 55,244 7.4 Liverpool PCT 543,478 73,107 13.5 Luton Teaching PCT 192,024 24,331 12.7 Manchester PCT 596,951 84,191 14.1 Medway Teaching PCT 257,399 40,750 15.8 Mid Essex PCT 328,559 26,478 8.1 Middlesbrough PCT 164,649 13,797 8.4 Milton Keynes PCT 216,672 19,486 9.0 Newcastle PCT 290,486 24,418 8.4 Newham PCT 311,286 64,975 20.9 Norfolk PCT 744,826 55,382 7.4 North East Essex PCT 319,211 27,807 8.7 North East Lincolnshire PCT 172,288 19,395 11.3 North Lancashire PCT 356,600 20,434 5.7 North Lincolnshire PCT 173,501 12,658 7.3 North Somerset PCT 200,501 12,666 6.3 North Staffordshire PCT 215,632 22,607 10.5 North Tees PCT 191,211 15,574 8.1 North Tyneside PCT 217,804 17,790 8.2 North Yorkshire and York PCT 773,032 54,639 7.1 Northamptonshire PCT 653,547 44,424 6.8 Northumberland Care Trust 336,229 25,543 7.6 Nottingham City PCT 324,298 43,908 13.5 Nottinghamshire County PCT 654,976 50,688 7.7 Oldham PCT 247,646 25,138 10.2 Oxfordshire PCT 596,465 42,571 7.1 Peterborough PCT 166,242 18,226 11.0 Plymouth Teaching PCT 261,429 26,610 10.2 Portsmouth City Teaching PCT 182,045 19,447 10.7 Redbridge PCT 234,835 31,737 13.5 Redcar and Cleveland PCT 159,596 11,904 7.5 Richmond and Twickenham PCT 179,273 17,185 9.6 Rotherham PCT 266,319 21,244 8.0 Salford PCT 260,179 35,318 13.6 Sandwell PCT 342,027 38,710 11.3 Sefton PCT 296,752 31,032 10.5 Sheffield PCT 542,219 58,818 10.8 Shropshire County PCT 294,199 25,323 8.6 Solihull PCT 207,680 18,018 8.7 Somerset PCT 517,491 41,180 8.0 South Birmingham PCT 387,551 42,208 10.9 South East Essex PCT 331,284 40,846 12.3 South Gloucestershire PCT 217,505 17,157 7.9 South Staffordshire PCT 580,641 56,810 9.8 South Tyneside PCT 168,988 14,548 8.6 South West Essex PCT 395,357 53,663 13.6 Southampton City PCT 241,405 18,503 7.7 Southwark PCT 293,245 46,869 16.0 Stockport PCT 284,478 33,070 11.6 Stoke on Trent PCT 290,022 28,131 9.7 Suffolk PCT 580,591 38,312 6.6 Sunderland Teaching PCT 314,301 32,297 10.3 Surrey PCT 1,064,244 76,547 7.2 Sutton and Merton PCT 363,391 36,604 10.1 Swindon PCT 190,519 17,719 9.3 Tameside and Glossop PCT 243,529 20,931 8.6 Telford and Wrekin PCT 157,431 14,209 9.0 Torbay Care Trust 145,592 10,658 7.3 Tower Hamlets PCT 239,528 36,931 15.4 Trafford PCT 224,714 17,024 7.6 Wakefield District PCT 368,085 12,448 3.4 Walsall Teaching PCT 271,949 36,696 13.5 Waltham Forest PCT 248,913 51,905 20.9 Wandsworth PCT 287,208 43,196 15.0 Warrington PCT 194,469 17,525 9.0 Warwickshire PCT 524,093 37,289 7.1 West Essex PCT 266,554 21,607 8.1 West Hertfordshire PCT 530,176 21,445 4.0 West Kent PCT 643,922 38,974 6.1 West Sussex PCT 793,053 58,106 7.3 Western Cheshire PCT 260,407 50,567 19.4 Westminster PCT 238,159 43,370 18.2 Wiltshire PCT 433,583 33,069 7.6 Wirral PCT 366,046 29,388 8.0 Wolverhampton City PCT 272,179 37,121 13.6 Worcestershire PCT 537,364 37,121 6.9 England 53,126,550 5,219,763 9.8