The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
63.
Mr. Franks
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors there are, and how many there were in 1979.
Mr. Mellor
In 1979 there were 60,764 doctors in the hospital and community health and family practitioner services in England. By 1987 the number was 68,777.