Table 2.3

 Demand for Health Care Contacts by primary care unit: weekly totals for the number of new clinical cases, and thus potential demand for Heath Care Contacts, per 100 000 population, and per Primary Care Trust (PCT), community pharmacy, GP practice or GP list of various sizes (see footnote for definition of “small”, “medium” and “large” as they are used in the table)

PeriodClinical casesCases per 100,000% of total casesCases per PCTCases per pharmacyCases per GP practiceCases per GP
SmallMediumLargeSmallMediumLargeSmallMediumLargeSmallMediumLarge
“Small”, “medium” and “large” refer to the 2.5th, 50th and 97.5th percentiles for the population served by a PCT, community pharmacy, GP practice or GP list, as follows.
Small: PCT, 80,000; Pharmacy, 3600; GP practice, 3800; GP list, 1200.
Medium: PCT, 150,000; Pharmacy, 5200; GP practice, 6300; GP list, 1600.
Large: PCT, 300,000; Pharmacy, 8600; GP practice 9200; GP list, 2000.
Week 121,367360.1%2854109123123011
Week 230,400510.2%4077155234235111
Week 3121,8862050.8%1623106207111881319334
Week 4464,2197803.1%61711812360284167294972101215
Week 51,569,434263810.6%2086399279779413722699166242334252
Week 63,206,013538821.6%4261815516,2951922804622033394946785106
Week 73,147,669529021.2%4183800715,9991892754541993334856684105
Week 82,122,779356814.3%2821540010,790127185306134224327445670
Week 91,444,92524289.7%1920367673448712620891153223303848
Week 101,122,05518867.5%149128545703679816271119173233037
Week 11778,16713085.2%10341980395547681124982120162126
Week 12387,4046512.6%515985196923345625416081013
Week 13232,9443921.6%3105931184142034152536568
Week 14128,2402160.9%1703266528111881420334
Week 1597,4981640.7%130248496691461015233
All weeks14,875,00025,000100%19,77037,83975,6068911299214594215722292311396494