GP Practice
Merchiston Surgery
J83001
Registered patients?NHS Digital — Patients Registered at a GP PracticePractice list size as published by NHS Digital (monthly snapshot). Parent rollups sum across all member practices that reported in the latest release.Update cadence: MonthlyOpen source ↗
13,388
NHS Digital list size
GP FTE?NHS Digital — General Practice WorkforceSum of fully-qualified GP FTE across reporting practices (latest quarterly snapshot). Excludes locums / GPs in training. Parent rollups simple-sum across member practices.Update cadence: QuarterlyOpen source ↗
7.77
NHS Digital workforce
Patients per GP FTE?NHS Digital — Workforce + Patient ListRegistered patients ÷ GP FTE, computed using only practices that reported workforce in the latest snapshot (denominators aligned to avoid inflation when coverage is < 100%). Lower = more GP capacity per patient.Update cadence: QuarterlyOpen source ↗
1,723
Items per patient?NHS Business Services Authority — Practice-level prescribing dataTotal prescribed items ÷ registered patients across the months currently held in the BSA practice-level dispensing CSV (typically the most recent 1–3 months — the dataset is sliced quarterly and our cache reflects the latest sync). Not adjusted for age, deprivation or condition mix. Compare against the same parent type for a like-for-like view.Update cadence: Monthly (BSA release)Open source ↗
2.12
prescribing volume
GPPS overall good?NHS England — GP Patient Survey (GPPS)Patient-list weighted mean of each practice's "overall good experience" %. NHS England's published ICB/national figure is GPPS-sample weighted (not list-size weighted) so small differences are expected.Update cadence: AnnualOpen source ↗
1.5%
patient experience
Limited classification in NHS Digital return
1,653 appointments were recorded for August 2025 without an appointment mode (Face-to-Face / Phone / Video) or a wait-time band — every record falls into "Unknown" at source. The mode-mix, wait-distribution and same-day cards therefore cannot be displayed for this month.
This is a clinical-system template configuration at the practice (common with older TPP / EMIS setups that don't map appointment categories into the NHS Digital extract). The total volume above is accurate; only the breakdowns are unavailable.
Access KPIs · August 2025?NHS Digital — Appointments in General PracticeLatest published month. Same-day % = appointments booked & attended same day ÷ total. Appts per 1K = ALL booking rows ÷ (list size / 1000) — includes triage encounters, so a triage-first practice scores higher than a same-volume direct-book practice. 28+ day backlog = appts ≥28 days from booking ÷ total. Patient contacts per 1K = (face-to-face + telephone + video) ÷ (list size / 1000) — excludes triage and home visits, isolating the modes the patient actually experiences as care delivery. This is the cleaner demand-per-population comparator.Update cadence: MonthlyOpen source ↗
Appts per 1K patients
124
all bookings (incl. triage)
Patient contacts per 1K
0.0
F2F + phone + video only
Source: NHS Digital appointments dataset (latest published month).
vs National average?Computed in-app from national rollupEach row shows this org's value minus the synthetic NATIONAL rollup (every GP practice in England aggregated using the same methodology). Negative = below national, positive = above. Direction colour-coded ("higher = better" or "lower = better" set per metric).Update cadence: Recomputed nightly
| KPI | This practice | National avg | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face-to-face % | 0.0% | 58.4% | -58.4% |
| Telephone % | 0.0% | 21.9% | -21.9% |
| Appts per 1K | 123.5 | 479.7 | -356.2 |
| Triage % | 0.0% | 8.7% | -8.7% |
National averages computed across 6,144 GP practices. Green Δ = above national for "higher is better" KPIs; red = the opposite.
Access trend (last 12 months)?NHS Digital — Appointments in General PracticeLast 12 published months. Each series is the monthly rate (Same-day %, F2F %, Phone %, Video %, Triage %) computed on the parent's aggregated appointment counts.Update cadence: MonthlyOpen source ↗
NHS Digital appointments dataset · last 24 months (2023-08 → 2025-08). Click a chip to toggle a series; the y-axis re-zooms to fit.
Total appointments (last 12 months)?NHS Digital — Appointments in General PracticeSum of all booked appointments (attended, did-not-attend and cancelled) across member practices, per month, for the last 12 published months.Update cadence: MonthlyOpen source ↗
Raw appointment count per month, last 24 months. Single-practice count.
Demand — appointments per 1,000 patients (last 12 months)?NHS Digital — Appointments in General PracticeTotal monthly appointments ÷ (registered list size / 1000). Normalises for population size so demand can be compared across orgs of different scale.Update cadence: MonthlyOpen source ↗
Monthly appointments per 1,000 registered patients — list-size-normalised demand. Last 24 months.
Demand pressure?NHS Digital — Appointments in General Practice + WorkforceComposite of same-day + triage appointment volume normalised by GP FTE. Used as a proxy for acute access pressure.Update cadence: MonthlyOpen source ↗
No specific risk factors detected.
Composite score across appointment volume, same-day access and long-wait share over the last 3 months.
6-month trends?NHS Digital — Appointments in General PracticeHeadline access metrics (Same-day %, F2F %, Appts per 1K) over the last 6 published months. Sparkline points are monthly aggregates across member practices.Update cadence: MonthlyOpen source ↗
| KPI | Direction | Slope (rel %) |
|---|---|---|
| Total appointments | ↑ | +1.5% |
| Face-to-face % | → | 0% |
| Telephone % | → | 0% |
| Same-day % | → | 0% |
| Appts per 1K | ↑ | +1.5% |
| Triage % | → | 0% |
Linear regression slope over the last 6 months, expressed as a percentage of the trailing average. Up arrows on triage / waits are unfavourable; up arrows on F2F / same-day are favourable.
Trends & anomalies — AI summary?Amazon Bedrock — Nova Lite, generated from this practice's analytics blockA short report-style summary written by Amazon Nova Lite from the practice's detected anomalies, step changes, 6-month trends, latest-month rates and demand-pressure band. The model is instructed to refuse to invent numbers and to call out only signals already present in the underlying tables. Cached at ORG#{ods}/ENRICH#access_narrative; invalidated when a new month of NHS Digital appointments data is published, and soft-stale after 30 days.Update cadence: Regenerated on data change or after 30 days
This month, total appointments per thousand patients rose to 123.5, which is 1.5% higher than the practice's trailing average. This is the most significant change observed in the data.
Several months show notable shifts. In 2025-06, total appointments per thousand patients spiked to 1768, which is 11.5% above the trailing average. This could indicate a temporary increase in demand or a recording anomaly.
To understand these changes, the manager should review the appointment scheduling logs for 2025-06 to identify any system changes or external factors that might have influenced the data. Additionally, checking if the rise in total appointments correlates with any specific patient demographic or service changes could provide further insights.
AI-generated from the analytics below (Amazon Nova Lite · data as of August 2025 · written today). The raw anomalies and step-change tables follow below for verification.
Anomalies detected (4)
Workforce capacity?NHS Digital — General Practice WorkforceGP / Nurse / Direct Patient Care (DPC) / Admin FTE summed across member practices. Patients-per-FTE ratios use the latest published list size as the numerator.Update cadence: QuarterlyOpen source ↗
GP FTE
7.77
Nurse FTE
3.64
Direct Patient Care FTE
4.52
Admin FTE
16.23
1 practices reporting · 100.0% coverage
Staff group mix?NHS Digital — General Practice WorkforceEach group's FTE as a % of total non-locum FTE (GP + Nurse + DPC + Admin). Latest snapshot only.Update cadence: QuarterlyOpen source ↗
Share of total FTE across reporting practices (excludes ARRS roles, which are surfaced separately at the PCN level).
Workforce composition?NHS Digital — General Practice Workforce (per-role detail)Per-role breakdown of each staff group from the long-format quarterly CSV. GP roles bucketed into Partner / Salaried / Training (ST1-ST4 / Foundation) / Locum / Retainer; Nurses into Practice Nurse / Advanced / Trainee; Admin into Management / Reception / Apprentice / Estates; DPC into Pharmacist / HCA / Paramedic / Physio / Social Prescriber. FTE summed across rows; headcount where reported.Update cadence: QuarterlyOpen source ↗
Per-role breakdown of each staff group from the latest NHS Digital quarterly snapshot. GP roles split into Partner / Salaried / Training (ST1-ST4 / Foundation) / Locum / Retainer. Practice-level only — parent-level rollup planned.
Workforce trend?NHS Digital — General Practice Workforce (quarterly releases)Per-release rollup: each point sums the FTE across the same set of practices reporting in that release. A drop in the line usually means fewer practices reported (see coverage card) — not necessarily a real headcount reduction.Update cadence: QuarterlyOpen source ↗
Source: NHS Digital General Practice Workforce — 25 snapshots (2024-03 → 2026-03). Y-axis zoomed to data range.
Patient experience (GPPS)
Prescribing volume?NHS Business Services Authority — Practice-level prescribing dataTotal prescribed items ÷ registered patients across the months currently held in the BSA practice-level dispensing CSV (typically the most recent 1–3 months — the dataset is sliced quarterly and our cache reflects the latest sync). Not adjusted for age, deprivation or condition mix. Compare against the same parent type for a like-for-like view.Update cadence: Monthly (BSA release)Open source ↗
2.12
items per registered patient (latest published period)
Data sources: NHS Digital (patient list, appointments, workforce, QOF, GPPS, screening, prescribing), CQC API. Aggregations refreshed 5/26/2026.