General Practice Workforce providing Primary Care services in Australia

The Department of Health and Aged Care manages workforce data collections which describe the characteristics of the general practice workforce providing primary care services.

Statistics are presented by State and Territory and Remoteness Area. More detailed statistics by patient age group or the sex of the general practitioner are available for select statistics.

For background information on how the metrics are calculated, Method papers for counting General Practitioners delivering primary care services.

Annual Statistics Coverage

• Number of GPs providing primary care services
• Number of services by GPs providing primary care services
• GP Full Time Equivalent

Please note: As part of the December 2023 updates to the General Practice workforce statistics all historical financial year and calendar year data has been revised. This revision is due to an update to the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) geographical classifications from the 2016 to the 2021 version. This update has resulted in some minor value changes to MMM and State level data due to changes in the geocoding of provider and patient addresses in the underlying data. If you have previously downloaded the data, we strongly recommend you use the latest version published.