Getting seen: GPs, dentists and preventable death
Improving · High attention
GP staffing and NHS dentistry trail England, and preventable deaths under 75 remain above the England rate.
Source: NHS Digital GP workforce
| Period | Portsmouth | England |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2019 | 40.5 | 47.0 |
| Sep 2020 | 36.8 | 46.3 |
| Sep 2021 | 37.1 | 45.7 |
| Sep 2022 | 36.0 | 44.5 |
| Sep 2023 | 32.7 | 43.5 |
| Sep 2024 | 33.4 | 44.0 |
| Sep 2025 | 35.7 | 44.6 |
| Jun 2026 | 36.4 | 45.7 |
Adults seen by an NHS dentist in the past two years. Portsmouth local authority.
Source: NHS BSA · seen in 24 months, to March 2026
Checked 23 September 2026
Directly age-standardised under-75 mortality rate from causes considered preventable, per 100,000 population, both sexes. This is preventable mortality, not combined avoidable mortality from preventable and treatable causes.
Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities · 2022–24
Checked 3 October 2026
Age-standardised using the 2013 European Standard Population. Three-year pooled rates smooth year-to-year variation; overlapping periods are not independent.
| Period | Portsmouth | England |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-19 | 191.0 | 142.6 |
| 2018-20 | 190.5 | 153.7 |
| 2019-21 | 205.9 | 166.8 |
| 2020-22 | 209.1 | 171.4 |
| 2021-23 | 206.7 | 163.6 |
| 2022-24 | 192.1 | 151.2 |
Where the GP figures come from
NHS England publishes GP workforce by sub-ICB, not by local authority. Portsmouth's sub-ICB (10R) is coterminous with the city — all 125 of its LSOAs are in Portsmouth — so this is a genuine Portsmouth figure, but it counts registered patients rather than residents.
What isn't published
Not published: No sub-city breakdown of any health measure is published.
Not published: The GP Patient Survey no longer publishes results at Portsmouth's sub-ICB level — 2025 and 2026 exist only at ICB, PCN and practice level.
Not published: Adult obesity and smoking come from a Portsmouth sample of only ~320–390 respondents, so confidence intervals are wide and smoking never registers as significantly different from England either way.
Not published: Portsmouth has not returned a value on the 5-year-old dental decay survey since 2014/15.
Not published: No published decomposition of what drives the preventable mortality gap.
Overview checked 26 August 2026. Additional figures have their own dates in the evidence explorer. Further context on UK Stat Pack.