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Data preview
| organisation code | name | postcode | sector | town or city | region | longitude | latitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y00082 | (fracture Clinic) North Ooh | NN1 5BD | NN1 5 | Northampton | East Midlands | -0.8838290 | 52.2360680 |
| P87657 | (irlam) Salford Care Ctrs Medical Practi | M44 6DP | M44 6 | Salford | North West | -2.4170740 | 53.4491070 |
| Y05381 | 0-19 East Cheshire Health Visitors | CW10 9FG | CW10 9 | Middlewich | North West | -2.4463170 | 53.1904580 |
| Y04082 | 0-19 Public Health Service Hartlepool | TS24 8AY | TS24 8 | N/A | North East | -1.2140050 | 54.6857820 |
| Y07341 | 0-25 Health And Wellbeing Knowsley | L36 3TN | L36 3 | Stockbridge Village | North West | -2.8559200 | 53.4229010 |
Data dictionary
- organisation_code
- Published organisation identifier for the GP practice.
- name
- GP practice name.
- postcode
- Full practice postcode.
- outcode
- Outward postcode district.
- sector
- Postcode sector derived from the postcode.
- postcode_area
- Alphabetic postcode area.
- town_or_city
- Best available locality label: city, then suburb, then post town.
- admin_district
- Local administrative district matched through the postcode.
- county
- Administrative county matched through the postcode.
- region
- Region matched through the postcode.
- country
- Country matched through the postcode.
- longitude
- Longitude in decimal degrees.
- latitude
- Latitude in decimal degrees.
- sector_url
- Permanent Postcodes UK postcode-sector page.
- district_url
- Permanent Postcodes UK postcode-district page.
Methodology and sources
GP practices are identified by their published organisation code. Postcode sector, area, locality, administrative geography and permanent Postcodes UK links are derived by matching the practice postcode to the postcode directory.
- NHS organisation data for GP practices
- Office for National Statistics postcode products
- Postcodes UK geographic matching
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Licence and suggested attribution
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Suggested attribution:
Source: Postcodes UK (postcodesuk.com), “UK GP Practices”, September 2026, https://postcodesuk.com/data-downloads/gp-practices. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; additional source rights and attribution statements apply.
Office for National Statistics and other public-sector information is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcode geography may contain Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail rights. HM Land Registry aggregates are derived from Price Paid Data. School fields derive from Department for Education and Ofsted sources.