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West Lancashire

7th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
14
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,483 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for West Lancashire yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
431/543
health
272/543
income
350/543
housing
385/543
education
332/543
employment
321/543
environment
301/543

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

3185 registered charities

3,185
Charities
£200,412,668
Grants to HQ'd charities
16,998
Employees
80,837
Volunteers
22.7%
Govt funded
LOW
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

CAMPBELL CHARITY
RESIDENCE FOR MINISTER AND OTHER PURPOSES IN CONNEXION WITH THE ANSDELL UNITARIAN CHAPEL
GEORGE HAWORTH
MANCKNOLLS WALTON COTTAGE HOMES
THE JAMES CROSS FUND
ELLEN BOULTON
ROBERT RIGBYE
HUMPHREY BOOTH THE ELDER

8 staff
ELIZA JANE DIXON BEQUEST
FUND KNOWN AS DUGDALE'S CHARITY

GP and primary care

14
GP practices
44
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,483
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 283 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in West Lancashire, by sector

Sector Employees
Education 5,000
NHS / Healthcare 3,500
Transport 2,705
Construction 2,650
Social Care 2,500
Environment / Green 240

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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