PATRON is a human ethics approved program of research incorporating an enduring de-identified repository of Primary Care data facilitating research and knowledge generation. PATRON is a part of the 'Data for Decisions' initiative of the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne. 'Data for Decisions' is a research initiative in partnership with general practices. It is an exciting undertaking that makes possible primary care research projects to increase knowledge and improve healthcare practices and policy. Principal Researcher: Jon EmeryData Custodian: Lena SanciData Steward: Douglas BoyleManager: Rachel CanawayMore information about Data for Decisions and utilising PATRON data is available from the Data for Decisions website.

The complete data set of annual utilization data reported by primary care clinics contains basic clinic identification information including community services, clinic staffing data, and patient and staff language data; financial information including gross revenue, itemized write-offs by program, an income statement, and selected capital project items; and information on encounters by service, principal diagnosis, and procedure codes (CPT codes). These products provide trend utilization information for primary care clinics in the form of tables and pivot tables. The primary care clinic trends resource includes information on the number of clinics by type, the number of patients (by race, ethnicity, gender and age), the number of encounters by payer source; and revenues by payer source including the average revenue per encounter.

The purpose of the collection of outpatient health statistics is to monitor, evaluate and plan curative and preventive health care at the primary and secondary level of health care system.

Data on outpatient statistics are an important source of information for population health monitoring indicators
and accessibility of outpatient health care activities in Slovenia. Health care providers collect data for each individual contact of the patients with the health service. It is reported by public and private healthcare providers.

Outpatient health statistics record contacts and services at general practicioners and specialist outpatient activities at the secondary level.

The complete data set of annual utilization data reported by primary care clinics contains basic clinic identification information including community services, clinic staffing data, and patient and staff language data; financial information including gross revenue, itemized write-offs by program, an income statement, and selected capital project items; and information on encounters by service, principal diagnosis, and procedure codes (CPT codes). These products provide trend utilization information for primary care clinics in the form of tables and pivot tables. The primary care clinic trends resource includes information on the number of clinics by type, the number of patients (by race, ethnicity, gender and age), the number of encounters by payer source; and revenues by payer source including the average revenue per encounter.

The Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) database receives and compiles data from local Hospital Based Home Care (HBHC) sanctioned programs at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) that run home care programs under the Home Based Primary Care program. The primary purpose is to provide HBPC management with case mix, case load, and other performance information. The HBPC information system is referred to as HBC at the VA Austin Information Technology Center and as HBHC at the local level. The HBHC automated a paper-based system of reporting home care episodes. When an admission form is completed, an episode is opened and input into HBHC for a potential home care patient. The patient is evaluated and accepted to or rejected from the program. When a patient leaves the program for any reason an episode is closed and a discharge form completed and input into HBHC. HBHC runs a nightly extract of information within the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture. Extractions include information on all Patient Care Encounters (PCEs) with the patient and home visits made by home care providers. Details of which provider(s) made the visit, the date, any diagnosis and any procedures performed are included. Each local application sends its data to the Austin HBC database on a monthly basis. A monthly report is prepared based on this information identifying the active cases at each VAMC. A more detailed quarterly report is produced that includes national comparisons among sites.

Nivel Primary Care Database

Nivel's Primary Care Database (Nivel Zorgregistraties eerste lijn) uses routinely recorded data from health care providers to monitor health and utilisation of health services in a representative sample of the Dutch population.

DC Health Search helps residents and visitors find primary care facilities in the District of Columbia. Users can enter an address to search for nearby facilities within a mile or up to 3 miles. Also, use this web map to search by area such as Ward and ANCs. DC Health Search should not be taken as a recommendation for services by the Department of Health. A complete list of sites that are included in DC Health Search are available on the DC Health website.

The complete data set of annual utilization data reported by primary care clinics contains basic clinic identification information including community services, clinic staffing data, and patient and staff language data; financial information including gross revenue, itemized write-offs by program, an income statement, and selected capital project items; and information on encounters by service, principal diagnosis, and procedure codes (CPT codes). These products provide trend utilization information for primary care clinics in the form of tables and pivot tables. The primary care clinic trends resource includes information on the number of clinics by type, the number of patients (by race, ethnicity, gender and age), the number of encounters by payer source; and revenues by payer source including the average revenue per encounter.

Primary care centers where residents can find available health care services in the District of Columbia. The dataset contains locations and attributes of Primary Care Centers, created as part of the DC Geographic Information System (DC GIS) for the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and participating D.C. government agencies. A database provided by the DC Department of Health (DOH) identified Primary Care Centers and DC GIS staff geo-processed the data.

This statistic shows the frequency adults in the U.S. visited or consulted a primary care physician as of 2018. According to data provided by Ipsos, ** percent of U.S. adults stated they visited or consulted a primary care physician just once a year.

The Primary Care Management Module (PCMM) was developed to assist VA facilities in implementing Primary Care. PCMM supports both Primary Care and non-Primary Care teams. The software allows the user to set up and define a team, assign positions to the team, assign staff to the positions, assign patients to the team, and assign patients to a Primary Care Provider (PCP) or Associate Provider (AP). In a Primary Care setting, patients are assigned a PCP, Associate Provider (AP) and/or a Transition Patient Advocate (TPA) who is responsible for delivering essential health care, coordinating all health care services, and serving as the point of access for specialty care. The PCP is supported by a team of professionals which may include nurses, pharmacists, social workers, etc. Associate Providers are non-physician clinicians (such as Physicians Assistants, Nurse Practitioners or Residents) who may provide care under the supervision of a presiding PCP. The PCMM software is considered to be an important component to measure patient demand and the PCPs capacity to meet that demand and to reduce wait times. PCMM was developed to assist facilities in implementing primary care for veterans. It uses the site's data to identify patients and to assign them to a PCP. PCMM provides tools to facilitate the startup process, automating such tasks as identifying patients to be assigned to primary care; assigning patients to teams, and assigning patients to practitioners via team positions.

As of 2025, the number of primary care physicians in the U.S. amounted to 535,542. In comparison, there were 570,655 specialist physicians that year, making a total of over 1.1 million professionally active physicians in the U.S. Compared with the previous year, the number of PCPs have increased, while the number of specialists have decreased.

Locations and contact information for Chicago primary care community health clinics (including all federally qualified health centers and similar community health centers that provide primary care and are open to the general community). Additional information can be found at: http://j.mp/QfZ7SP CDPH anticipates that this list will be used in the following ways: 1) by residents who are in need of assistance in finding a primary care physician and clinic near their homes; 2) by social service and public sector service providers that want to link their consumers to primary care near their homes; 3) by health system and public health researchers who are interested in Chicago’s primary care and safety net provider landscape. Clinics were excluded from this list if a) it is not specifically in their mission to care for underserved populations or b) if clinic services are only available to a narrowly defined population. Disclaimers: This list is intended to be a working document of primary care clinics for underserved populations in Chicago. If you believe an entry on this list to be outdated, misrepresented, or otherwise in error, please contact healthychicago@cityofchicago.org.

NHS England collect and publish data about people with dementia at each GP practice in England, to enable NHS GPs and commissioners to make informed choices about how to plan their dementia services around patients’ needs. The publication includes the rate of dementia diagnosis. As not everyone with dementia has a formal diagnosis, this statistic compares the number of people thought to have dementia with the number of people diagnosed with dementia, aged 65 and over. Where current monthly data for a GP practice is unavailable, the most recent data available are used (up to a maximum of 6 months). Prior to October 2022, dementia data were collected via the dementia data core contract service and published as the "Recorded Dementia Diagnoses" series. The data in these two publication series are not comparable. This is due to the retrospective application of codes to patient records and changes in patient registration, as well as differences in coverage and the specification of several the counts. Refer to the ‘Related Links’ for the supporting information page where details on these changes can be found.

As of January 2025, the states with the highest number of active primary care physicians (PCPs) were California, New York, and Texas. As of that time, of the ******* PCPs in the United States, around ** percent were in the state of California. Physicians by specialty In the United States, the specialties with the highest number of active physicians include emergency medicine, psychiatry, surgery, and anaesthesiology. The most popular physician specialties in the state of California mirror this national trend. In 2024, California had over ***** psychiatrists and ***** surgeons. Physician burn-out Although being a physician can be a rewarding and lucrative profession, physicians often feel stressed and burned-out. In 2024, a survey of physicians in the U.S. found that ** percent of female and ** percent of male physicians felt burned out. Moreover, PCPs, employed physicians, and doctors aged 45 and under were more likely to be burned out than their counterparts.

The General Practice Workforce series of Official Statistics presents a snapshot of the primary care general practice workforce. A snapshot statistic relates to the situation at a specific date, which for these workforce statistics is now the last calendar day each month. This monthly snapshot reflects the general practice workforce at 31 May 2024. These statistics present full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount figures by four staff groups, (GPs, Nurses, Direct Patient Care (DPC) and administrative staff), with breakdowns of individual job roles within these high-level groups. For the purposes of NHS workforce statistics, we define full-time working to be 37.5 hours per week. Full-time equivalent is a standardised measure of the workload of an employed person. Using FTE, we can convert part-time and additional working hours into an equivalent number of full-time staff. For example, an individual working 37.5 hours would be classed as 1.0 FTE while a colleague working 30 hours would be 0.8 FTE. The term “headcount” relates to distinct individuals, and as the same person may hold more than one role, care should be taken when interpreting headcount figures. Please refer to the Using this Publication section for information and guidance about the contents of this publication and how it can and cannot be used. England-level time series figures for all job roles are available in the Excel bulletin tables back to September 2015 when this series of Official Statistics began. The Excel file also includes Sub-ICB Location-level FTE and headcount breakdowns for the current reporting period. CSVs containing practice-level summaries and Sub-ICB Location-level counts of individuals are also available. Please refer to the Publication content, analysis, and release schedule in the Using this publication section for more details of what’s available. We are continually working to improve our publications to ensure their contents are as useful and relevant as possible for our users. We welcome feedback from all users to PrimaryCareWorkforce@nhs.net.

Healthcare Data for use with GIS mapping software, databases, and web applications are from Caliper Corporation and contain point geographic files of healthcare organizations, providers, and hospitals and an boundary file of Primary Care Service Areas.

CPRD GOLD contains primary care data contributed by GP practices using Vision(r) software including patient registration information and all care events that GPs have chosen to record as part of their usual medical practice.

Primary Care Networks were created in July 2019 to provide accessible and integrated primary, mental health, and community care for patients. The PCN contract is a Directed Enhanced Service and aims to increase the primary care workforce by 26,000 by 2024. The bulk of the PCN workforce consists of Direct Patient Care staff, funded by the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS), and each PCN has the flexibility and autonomy to determine which roles are required to meet the specific needs of their local populations. Initially, recruitment focused on clinical pharmacists and social prescribing link workers, with more roles being included over subsequent years. Information about the PCN workforce is provided directly by each PCN, and recorded in the National Workforce Reporting Service (NWRS) which is the same system that is used to collect information about the general practice workforce. This report includes England, Integrated Care Board (ICB), Sub-ICB Location and PCN-level figures for Clinical Directors, Direct Patient Care Workers and Admin/Non-Clinical staff working in PCNs on 31 January 2024. The level of detail in the information that we can collect about each individual varies, as there are different ways that individuals can be contracted to work for their PCN. Some staff work directly for the PCN, including Clinical Directors, administrative workers, and some Direct Patient Care staff. These individuals may have been newly recruited to the PCN, or could be staff transferring some or all of their working hours from a general practice or other organisation. Alternatively, an individual may be employed by a member organisation within the PCN – such as a hospital trust or charity – and deployed to work for the PCN. In both cases, details about the staff member, including the hours worked for the PCN, are recorded in the NWRS. However, in some cases, a role – for example a physiotherapist – is not staffed permanently by a specific individual. Instead, the working hours are covered by a group of physiotherapists, employed by another organisation such as the local ICB, and deployed to the PCN as a “contracted service,” which up until the September 2020 release were referred to in this publication series as “pooled resource”. In these cases, the providing organisation holds a contract with the PCN to deliver the physiotherapy service and supplies appropriately qualified staff, possibly on a rota’d basis. Where the healthcare provision is covered by a contracted service of this nature, it is not possible to identify the separate individuals working within the PCN and in these cases, the PCN provides us with information about the average weekly working hours covered by that “contracted service”. This means that although we can calculate proxy full-time equivalent (FTE) figures relating to the service, no information about headcount or workforce characteristics can be inferred. This means that headcount figures presented in the accompanying Bulletin do not include provision from these “contracted services.” The completeness and coverage of PCN workforce data is constantly improving and more PCNs are using the new NWRS. We now believe data quality is sufficient to warrant monthly collections and publications, and as such, monthly publications have commenced from January 2023. We are working continually to improve our publications and we welcome feedback from all users by email to: PrimaryCareWorkforce@nhs.net. Links to other publications presenting healthcare workforce information can be found under Related Links.