Have practices in your area requested to shrink their patient catchment area?

Pulse has found that NHS England has rejected one in four requests by practices to shrink their patient catchment areas. Find out the situation in your area.

Area team

Requests to shrink boundaries

Requests to shrink boundaries

North 2013/14 Approved Denied Withdrawn Pending 2014/15 Approved Denied Withdrawn Pending

Leicestershire and Lincolnshire 2 1 1 0 0 6 1 4 0 1

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shropshire and Staffordshire 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

Greater Manchester 5 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne & Wear 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

East Anglia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

North Yorkshire and Humber 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Durham, Darlington and Tees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Hertfordshire and South Midlands 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

West Yorkshire 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

Lancashire 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 2

Merseyside 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Essex 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0

Arden, Herefordshire and Worcestershire 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

South

Wessex 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

Bath, Gloucester, Swindon and Wiltshire 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

Kent and Medway 2 0 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 1

Surrey and Sussex 4 3 1 0 0 4 2 1 0 1

Thames Valley 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset and South Gloucestershire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

London

North West London 5 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0

North East London 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

South London 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

Total 30 15 10 4 1 26 10 5 2 9

% 0.5 0.333333 0.133333 0.033333 0.384615 0.192308 0.076923077 0.346154