Ethnic minorities in England have worse access to GPs

Areas of England with the highest proportion of minority ethnic people have 29% less GPs than areas with the highest proportion of white Britons. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian

Areas across England where the highest proportion of ethnic minorities live have the poorest access to GPs, with experts attributing this disparity to an outdated model being used to determine funding.

As of October 2023, there were 34 fully qualified full-time-equivalent GPs per 100,000 patients in the areas with the highest proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to a Guardian analysis of NHS Digital and census data.