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General Practitioners: Hertfordshire

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors were employed by West Hertfordshire primary care trust (a) in 1997 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available. (289444)

The number of doctors employed by West Hertfordshire primary care trust (PCT) for 2002 when PCTs were first established and for 2008 which is the latest data available, is shown in the following table.

General and personal medical services and hospital and community health services: All Doctors1 within specified PCTs

Numbers (headcount)

Of which:

As at 30 September each year

All Doctors

Medical staff

General practitioners

2008

West Hertfordshire PCT

456

21

435

2002

Dacorum PCT

102

3

99

Hertsmere PCT

69

3

66

St. Albans and Harpenden PCT

97

3

94

Watford and Three Rivers PCT

122

1

121

Notes:

1. Excludes medical Hospital Practitioners and medical Clinical Assistants, most of whom are GPs working part time in hospitals.

2. Data quality

Workforce statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 National Health Service trusts and PCTs in England. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data. Processing methods and procedures are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where this happens any impact on figures already published will be assessed but unless this is significant at national level they will not be changed. Where there is impact only at detailed or local level this will be footnoted in relevant analyses.

Source:

The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census

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