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North West

Whitehaven and Workington

3rd decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 3,236 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)

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Your councillors

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Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
258/543
health
82/543
Bottom 20%
income
210/543
housing
148/543
education
131/543
employment
146/543
environment
230/543

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

Identified resource gaps

health MODERATE
Rank 82/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
826 health-focused charities, 3510 employees
GP ratio: 1:3236 (above 1:2000 threshold)
crime MODERATE
Rank 258/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
income LOW
Rank 210/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
274 income-focused charities, 896 employees
employment LOW
Rank 146/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
292 employment-focused charities, 1195 employees
education LOW
Rank 131/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
983 education-focused charities, 3975 employees
housing LOW
Rank 148/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
85 housing-focused charities, 1105 employees
environment LOW
Rank 230/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
634 environment-focused charities, 1407 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

2137 registered charities

2,137
Charities
£203,157,963
Grants to HQ'd charities
6,052
Employees
36,559
Volunteers
21.0%
Govt funded
MEDIUM
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

NEVILLE HALL CHARITY
THE JAMES CROSS FUND
YOUDALL AND WILKINSON'S DOLE
THOMAS THOMPSON
WESTMORLAND SOCIETY FOR MENTAL HANDICAP CLUB TRUST FUND
JANE RAMSEY'S CHARITY
ANN LANGTON
WILLIAM WALKER
GILES MOORE GIFT
SARAH AGNES ALBRIGHT

GP and primary care

7
GP practices
30
FQ FTE GPs
1:3,236
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 1036 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Whitehaven and Workington, by sector

Sector Employees
Construction 3,950
NHS / Healthcare 3,500
Education 3,500
Social Care 1,900
Environment / Green 1,110
Transport 1,075

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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