General Practitioners: Older Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many practising general practitioners are over (a) 80, (b) 75, (c) 70 and (d) 65 years of age; and what percentage of practising general practitioners each figure represents. (165082)

This information is shown in the following table.

*General practitioners (GPs) by age band as at September 2006*
	Headcount	Percentage
All GPs (excluding retainers and registrars)	33,091	100.0
of which:
Over 80	7	0.0
Over 75	23	0.1
Over 70	143	0.4
Over 65	738	2.2
Note: General Medical Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) includes GP Providers and GP Others. Source: The Information Centre for Health and Social Care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

Volume 468: debated on Monday 26 November 2007