Healthcare Recruiting · Manchester, NH

Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Manchester, grounded in the metro's real numbers.

We track the Manchester-Nashua, NH area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.

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Provider supply

Who practices in Manchester today

Individual providers with an active practice address in the Manchester-Nashua, NH area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).

1,487

Physicians

774

Nurse practitioners

388

Physician assistants

Over the last 12 months, the Manchester metro added 25 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 6 physicians, and 17 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.

Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: New Hampshire side of the Manchester metro area.

Demand

What the local employer market looks like

Federal quarterly employment data for Manchester-area healthcare employers.

Hospitals

9,142 employed, down 3.4% year over year. Average wages up 14.4% over the same period.

Ambulatory care

11,478 employed across 806 sites.

Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.

Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See New Hampshire pay ranges →

Shortage pressure

8 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Manchester area.

1 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.

Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.

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