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Health Professions: Manpower

Volume 502: debated on Monday 7 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) GPs, (b) dentists, (c) optometrists and (d) pharmacies there were in each region in each of the last two years; and how many this equated to per 100,000 resident population in each category. (303576)

The numbers of general practitioners (GPs) per 100,000 resident population are available as at 30 September 2007 and 2008, for England and by strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care trust (PCT).

Data as at 30 September 2007 are available in the ‘General and Personal Medical Services. Detailed Results’ report. This report, published on 14 March 2008, has been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/workforce/nhs-staff-numbers/nhs-staff-1997--2007-general-practice

Data are contained in the table ‘Selected Statistics by Primary Care Trusts: England’:

www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/nhsstaff2007/gp/PCT%20Level.xls

Data as at 30 September 2008 are available in the ‘General and Personal Medical Services. Detailed Results’. Data are contained in the table ‘Selected Statistics by Primary Care Trusts: England’. This report, published on 25 March 2009, has been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/workforce/nhs-staff-numbers/nhs-staff-1998--2008-general-practice

Data are contained in the table ‘Selected Statistics by Primary Care Trusts: England’:

www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/nhsstaff2008/gp/2008%20Detailed%20Results%20Final.xls

The numbers of dentists with NHS activity per 100,000 resident population during the years ending 31 March 2008 and 2009 are available in Table G1 of Annex 3 of the NHS Dental Statistics for England, 2008-09 report. Information is provided for England and by SHA and PCT. This information is based on the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006. This report, published on 19 August 2009, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0809

The numbers of optometrists per 100,000 resident population as at 31 December 2007 and 2008 are available for England and by SHA and PCT in Table CI (2007) and Table C2 (2008) of Annex 4 of the ‘General Ophthalmic Services: Workforce Statistics for England and Wales, 31 December 2008’ report.

This report, published on 21 May 2009, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/eye-care/general-ophthalmic-services:-workforce-statistics-for-england-and-wales-31-december-2008

The number of pharmacies per 100,000 resident population as at 31 March 2008 and 2009 are available for England and by SHA and PCT.

Data as at 31 March 2008 are available in the PCT Level Appendix of the ‘General Pharmaceutical Services in England and Wales 1998-99 to 2007-08’ report. This report, published on 25 November 2008, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/pharmacies/general-pharmaceutical-services-in-england-and-wales-1998-99-to-2007-08

Data as at 31 March 2009 are available in the PCT Level Appendix of the ‘General Pharmaceutical Services in England 1999-00 to 2008-09’ report. This report, published on 24 November 2009, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/primary-care/pharmacies/general-pharmaceutical-services-in-england-1999-2000-to-2008-09

Data on the numbers of pharmacists working within the pharmacies are not collected by the NHS Information Centre and therefore is not available centrally.