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General Practitioners: Greater London

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

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Mr. Randall

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many GPs there were in (a) Uxbridge constituency, (b) Hillingdon Primary Care Trust and (c) Greater London in each year since 1997. (169676)

Mr. Bradshaw

The information requested can be found in the following table which shows the number of General Medical Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)1 for London, Hillingdon Health Authority (HA) and Hillingdon Primary Care Trust (of which Uxbridge is a part) for the period 1997 to 2006 (which is the latest data available).

1 General Medical Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) includes general practitioner (GP) providers and GP others.

Number (headcount)

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

England

28,046

28,251

28,467

28,593

28,802

29,202

30,358

31,523

32,738

33,091

London

4,324

4,273

4,275

4,307

4,301

4,327

4,531

4,695

4,896

4,868

Hillingdon HA

127

128

127

127

1—

1—

1—

1—

1—

1—

Hillingdon PCT

1—

1—

1—

1—

132

129

131

144

138

143

1 Denotes data not available.

Note:

Data presented for organisations in existence in the specified years.

Source:

The Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics