Put General Practitioners on the Home Office's 'Shortage Occupation List'

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Popularity

This petition has 1,881 signatures in total, with signatories from 423 constituencies. That makes it the 5,150th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 25% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 62% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 146 - Lincoln
• 86 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 78 - Louth and Horncastle
• 75 - Gainsborough
• 66 - Boston and Skegness
• 46 - Grantham and Stamford
• 27 - North Herefordshire
• 27 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 27 - Newark
• 24 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 24 - West Worcestershire
• 22 - Clacton
• 22 - Mid Worcestershire
• 22 - Bromsgrove
• 21 - West Suffolk
• 21 - Redditch
• 21 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 19 - Ludlow
• 16 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 16 - Clwyd South
• 15 - Worcester
• 15 - Nottingham South
• 15 - Wyre Forest
• 13 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 12 - Rushcliffe
• 12 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 12 - Corby
• 11 - Torfaen
• 9 - Monmouth
• 9 - Wrexham
• 9 - North Shropshire
• 9 - The Wrekin
• 8 - Cambridge
• 8 - Harwich and North Essex
• 8 - South Cambridgeshire
• 8 - Lichfield
• 8 - Kettering
• 8 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 8 - Peterborough
• 8 - Daventry
• 8 - Penrith and The Border
• 7 - York Outer
• 7 - Nottingham North
• 7 - Bassetlaw
• 7 - East Yorkshire
• 7 - North East Somerset
• 6 - Gower
• 6 - Central Devon
• 6 - Angus
• 6 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 6 - Stourbridge
• 6 - Stroud
• 6 - York Central
• 6 - Meriden
• 6 - Derbyshire Dales
• 6 - North West Norfolk
• 6 - Wansbeck
• 6 - North Norfolk
• 6 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 6 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 6 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 6 - Newport West
• 6 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 6 - Brigg and Goole
• 6 - West Dorset
• 6 - Torridge and West Devon
• 5 - Norwich South
• 5 - North East Bedfordshire
• 5 - South West Wiltshire
• 5 - Rutland and Melton
• 5 - Ilford North
• 5 - Nottingham East
• 5 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 5 - Stone
• 5 - Tewkesbury
• 5 - Telford
• 5 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 5 - Northampton North
• 5 - Broxtowe
• 5 - Cardiff North
• 5 - Cardiff West
• 5 - Cardiff Central
• 5 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 4 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 4 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 4 - Isle of Wight
• 4 - Reading East
• 4 - Beverley and Holderness
• 4 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 4 - Dover
• 4 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 4 - Sherwood
• 4 - Thirsk and Malton
• 4 - St Ives
• 4 - Sunderland Central
• 4 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Bury St Edmunds
• 4 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 4 - Glasgow South
• 3 - Islwyn
• 3 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Keighley
• 3 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 3 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 3 - Leeds North East
• 3 - Leeds North West
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Epsom and Ewell
• 3 - Erewash
• 3 - Gedling
• 3 - Fylde
• 3 - Hexham
• 3 - Newbury
• 3 - Northampton South
• 3 - North Dorset
• 3 - North Durham
• 3 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 3 - Harborough
• 3 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Orpington
• 3 - Vale of Clwyd
• 3 - Witney
• 3 - Copeland
• 3 - Skipton and Ripon
• 3 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 3 - South Norfolk
• 3 - South Northamptonshire
• 3 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 3 - Wokingham
• 3 - Warwick and Leamington
• 3 - Taunton Deane
• 3 - Caerphilly
• 3 - Thornbury and Yate
• 3 - Blaenau Gwent
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - Tunbridge Wells
• 3 - Tynemouth
• 3 - South Dorset
• 3 - Scunthorpe
• 3 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 3 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 3 - Doncaster Central
• 3 - Arfon
• 3 - Arundel and South Downs
• 3 - Derby North
• 3 - Poole
• 3 - Saffron Walden
• 3 - Dartford
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - Amber Valley
• 2 - Warrington South
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Mansfield
• 2 - Montgomeryshire
• 2 - Yeovil
• 2 - Loughborough
• 2 - Watford
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 2 - Middlesbrough
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Wellingborough
• 2 - Weaver Vale
• 2 - Maidenhead
• 2 - Waveney
• 2 - North Tyneside
• 2 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 2 - Neath
• 2 - Vauxhall
• 2 - Shipley
• 2 - Oxford East
• 2 - Selby and Ainsty
• 2 - Salford and Eccles
• 2 - Romford
• 2 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 2 - Richmond Park
• 2 - North West Leicestershire
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - Redcar
• 2 - South Staffordshire
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 2 - South Derbyshire
• 2 - South Shields
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - Aberconwy
• 2 - Tatton
• 2 - Tamworth
• 2 - North Cornwall
• 2 - Sutton Coldfield
• 2 - Sutton and Cheam
• 2 - North Devon
• 2 - Stafford
• 2 - Spelthorne
• 2 - Portsmouth South
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - Guildford
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 2 - Hazel Grove
• 2 - Cynon Valley
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Dundee West
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 2 - Horsham
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Forest of Dean
• 2 - Calder Valley
• 2 - Eastleigh
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Edinburgh South
• 2 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 2 - Enfield, Southgate
• 2 - Carlisle
• 2 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 2 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 2 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 2 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 2 - Huddersfield
• 2 - Chippenham
• 2 - Barrow and Furness
• 2 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 2 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 2 - Bury North
• 2 - Chichester
• 2 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - Huntingdon
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 1 - South Ribble
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Stretford and Urmston
• 1 - Christchurch
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - South Leicestershire
• 1 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 1 - Swansea East
• 1 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - City of Durham
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Stockton North
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - St Austell and Newquay
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - South West Devon
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 1 - Chesterfield
• 1 - Aldershot
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Battersea
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Bedford
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Belfast South
• 1 - West Bromwich West
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - Barking
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Ashfield
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Worthing West
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 1 - Wells
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Twickenham
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Totnes
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Tooting
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Bristol North West
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Bolsover
• 1 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 1 - Morley and Outwood
• 1 - Wealden
• 1 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Bishop Auckland
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Henley
• 1 - Newport East
• 1 - New Forest East
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Glasgow North West
• 1 - North East Derbyshire
• 1 - Edinburgh South West
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Esher and Walton
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - North East Hampshire
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - Manchester, Withington
• 1 - Leeds West
• 1 - Maldon
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Macclesfield
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 1 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 1 - Leeds Central
• 1 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Moray
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Ipswich
• 1 - Islington North
• 1 - Kensington
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - Colchester
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Salisbury
• 1 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Denton and Reddish
• 1 - Derby South
• 1 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 1 - Rugby
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Sedgefield
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - Coventry North East
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - Sheffield Central
• 1 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Dewsbury
• 1 - Rochester and Strood
• 1 - East Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 1 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 1 - Nuneaton
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - East Devon
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Ribble Valley
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 1 - Putney
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 1 - Eastbourne
• 1 - East Surrey

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 687 - East Midlands
• 309 - West Midlands
• 154 - East of England
• 124 - South West
• 114 - Wales
• 98 - South East
• 95 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 75 - North West
• 73 - North East
• 73 - London
• 43 - Scotland
• 3 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,861 - United Kingdom
• 11 - France
• 3 - Germany
• 2 - Spain
• 1 - Czechia
• 1 - Luxembourg
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - Poland