The Business Services Organisation has published its annual General Medical Services statistics for Northern Ireland, covering the 2025/26 period. The report provides a high-level summary of GP activity, practice characteristics, and payments at regional, Local Commissioning Group, Local Government District, and GP Federation levels.

The publication is the seventh standalone report of its kind. It includes comparable figures for other parts of the UK, though the report cautions that differences in service delivery, private sector involvement, and working hours make direct comparisons difficult.

GP numbers are based on a headcount of registered performers rather than full-time equivalents, so changes to part-time working are not reflected. Practice features such as multiple sites and patient list sizes are described using the primary site only.

As of June 2024, the number of individuals on the index of registered patients was almost 6.8 percent higher than the 2024 mid-year population estimate for Northern Ireland. The report attributes the discrepancy to factors such as lags in removing deceased or emigrated patients and the registration of Frontier Workers.

Payments processed by BSO towards GP services represent the total cost disbursed on behalf of the Department of Health’s Strategic Planning and Performance Group. The figures relate to the year claims were processed, not necessarily when the activity occurred, meaning some claims from earlier or later periods may be included.

The data tables and bulletin are available free of charge on the BSO website, and provisional quarterly updates for 2026/27 will be released throughout the year.