General Practice Dashboard

The General Practice Dashboard (GPD) is hosted on the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP). It features practice-level data across national priority indicators within 5 domains

• access and experience
• workforce
• clinical outcomes and care quality
• vaccinations and screening
• medicines management

Variation between practices is flagged based on defined thresholds and weightings.

It currently includes 33 indicators, with ongoing development focused on refining indicator definitions, enhancing the variation assessment methodology, and improving overall functionality and user experience.

The GPD is primarily designed for ICBs, as delegated commissioners of general practice services, to support them with their responsibilities for contractual management and improvement and transformation of services.

It is to be used by ICBs alongside local information and intelligence to help identify unwarranted variation in general practice. It will also be used by NHS England to support its oversight and assurance activities.

NHSE regional approvers will review and approve access requests. All access requests must include a clear explanation of why access to the dashboard is needed and how the data will be used. If the justification does not meet expectations, the request may be denied.

If you have not been granted access within 5 days, contact your regional approver. Approver details can also be found on the FDP home page, GP Dashboard tile, 'Open Project Information' page.  

Access to the GPD for general practices and PCNs is currently under consideration.

User feedback is crucial for enhancing the GP Dashboard and all feedback is welcomed, for example on usability, suggestions for new or improved indicators/metrics, and any data accuracy issues. You can provide this feedback via the feedback form or by emailing the General Practice Commissioning Team at [email protected].

Release 7 (Go-Live date: Wednesday, 25 March) 

This release delivers several improvements and refinements to ensure greater accuracy, usability, and alignment with future organisational structures.

This release delivers several improvements and refinements to ensure greater accuracy, usability, and alignment with future organisational structures.

Enhancements

Updated ICB clustering arrangements

We have prepared for  the revised Integrated Care Board (ICB) structures  that will take effect from 1 April 2026. geographies. While the new ICB geographies come into effect in April, changes to the GPD to reflect the new geographies will happen in May. 

Performance thresholds added to charts

Charts in the practice level view now display the performance thresholds that determine positive or negative variation flags.

Master Practice List (MPL) filtering Improvements

Restrictions related to practice list size have now been removed. To enable more comprehensive and flexible analysis, the MPL will only exclude practices with a list size of zero.

ICB trend line added to GP trend series charts

GP trend charts now include an ICB comparison line. This feature, originally notified in error as a Release 6.1 feature, has now been released .

Change in the definition

GPMM003 definition change

The definition of the GPMM003 metric has been updated to “Opioids with a likely daily dose of ≥ 90mg morphine equivalence per 1,000 registered patients” (previously ≥ 120mg). This change aligns with national clinical guidance and supports improved monitoring of high dose opioid prescribing.

Bug fixes

Corrected ICB line colour for metric GPAE004

Updated the ICB comparator line colour for the metric “Percentage of patients describing their overall experience of contacting their GP practice as ‘very good’ or ‘good’.”

Medicines management data refresh and metric logic update

Updated data availability up to July 2025, ensuring more up to date insights and using data on a rolling 12 month basis. This also includes updating of the upper and lower thresholds, to match the metric logic. with the domain now being scored for variation again.

ICB comparator for co-located GP practices

Resolved an issue affecting comparator accuracy for co-located GP practices.

User access to the private portal (dashboard) is strictly subject to the Dashboard end user access agreement.

By accessing the data through the private portal, you are accepting the terms of the dashboard end user access agreement.

Data may be downloaded and analysed using other analytical tools but must not be shared outside the user’s organisation.

For access, technical or accessibility issues with the dashboard, contact the National Service Desk at [email protected] or 0300 3035 035; they will triage specialist queries.

Additionally, user guides, FAQs, and troubleshooting resources are available on the Federated Data Platform home page under help.

Further GP Dashboard resources and wider commissioning and transformation support materials for ICBs are on Future NHS. You will need a NHS Futures account to access these pages.