The GP practices in Bracknell with the most and least patients per doctor have been revealed.

The British Medical Association said large disparities in GP to patient ratios throughout England are "wholly unacceptable" and called on the Government to address the longstanding issues.

NHS digital figures show more than 800,000 patients were registered at GP practices in the NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group area at the end of January. This figure is over 73 practices with the equivalent of just under 600 GP’s.

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If patients were evenly spread, each GP would deal with an average of 1,349 patients.

The Great Hollands health centre in Bracknell has one of the worst ratio’s in NHS Frimley Health with 4,219 patients and only one GP. Meaning that there are 4,259 patients per GP.

This is followed by Manor Park Medical Centre in Slough with 3,617 patients per GP. With a total of 10,851 patients and three general practitioner staff members

The least subscribed practice is the Lee House Surgery in Windsor with 485 patients per GP. In this surgery there are 7288 with 15 full time GP’s.

Dr Kieran Sharrock, BMA England GP committee deputy chairman, said: “This data shows worryingly large disparities in GP to patient ratios across the country, and it is wholly unacceptable that patients should have to experience such variations in access to care.

“The Government has failed to address the longstanding recruitment and retention issues in general practice, and we now have a very unsustainable and unsafe situation where fewer GPs are being tasked with the responsibility of caring for significantly more patients."

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The Department of Health and Social Care said there were more than 1,600 more full-time doctors in December 2021 than two years previously, with a record-breaking number starting training last year.

A spokesman added: “We have invested £520million to improve access and expand GP capacity during the pandemic."

 

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