Where can I find a list of GP Practices in England and Wales?

[haroon.ahmed12]

We had the following question raised via email:
"A couple of years back we were using your GP lookup API on our patient management system but this API was then stopped and we had to design a new GP lookup feature within our PMS.

Do you know how I could obtain a current up-to-date list of the GP practices in the UK so we can do some data cleansing? We seem to have a lot of duplicate GP practices and would like to remove them but currently not sure which practice is the correct one."

[haroon.ahmed12]

You can find the name and address information and identifying codes for GP Practices in:

• England and Wales - GP and GP practice related data - NHS Digital. (CSV format)
• Scotland - GP Workforce & Practice populations | Health Topics | ISD Scotland. (XLSX format)

[tony.heap]

Hmm, I wonder if the requestor wants to know whether we have APIs for this. One option might be the ODS APIs, another might be the various healthcare services APIs. A good place to start would be our (relatively new) guide to building healthcare software that deals with organisations and healthcare services.