These Profiles are designed to assist GP practices and Primary Care Trusts (PCT) to ensure that they are providing and commissioning an adequate level of effective and appropriate healthcare services for their local population. They contain information that can be used for both practice and PCT commissioning, for local needs assessment, for monitoring of population health and service utilisation, and for clinical governance reviews. Specifically, there is information on:

• local demographics
• estimated prevalence rates
• quality outcome framework indicators
• admission rates
• comparisons for all practices within PCTs and against London averages.

The London Practice Profles are not an exhaustive list of primary care indicators - there are many other indicators that are collected and used at a local GP and PCT level. However, they provide a consistent approach to comparing and benchmarking across London.

Select your london primary care trust in step one, then select your GP practice in step two, and finally click the generate profile button in step three. For guidance on using the practice profiles tool please click here.