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Mr. Donald Stewart
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many foreign doctors have entered the United Kingdom to practise in each of the last five years.
Dr. Owen
Information in the from requested is not available. Table 1 gives
| Hospital Doctors‡ | RHB Administrative Medical Staff | ||||||
| Year | Number | Whole-time equivalent | General Practitioner* | ||||
| 1949 (31st December) | … | … | … | Not available† | 11,735 | 61 | 17,651 |
| 1973 (30th September) | … | … | … | 29,668 | 27,401 | 152 | 21,615 |
| 1974 (30th September) | … | … | … | 30,515 | 28,408 | No comparable figure | 21,824 |
| * Principals contracted to provide general medical services. | |||||||
| † Statistics for 1949 related to numbers of appointments and did not eliminate duplication Numbers of doctors cannot, therefore, be given in a form comparable with recent statistics. | |||||||
| ‡ The hospital figures exclude clinical assistants. A number of clinical assistants are also general practitioners and hence are counted in the last column. In 1973 there were 6,498 clinical assistants of whom 4,436 were also general practitioners. | |||||||