General Practitioners: Manpower Mike Penning To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the ratio of practising NHS general practitioners to population was in (a) Hemel Hempstead constituency, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England in the last year for which figures are available. Mr. Bradshaw Information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of general medical practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) per 100,000 head of population for England, the East of England strategic health authority area and the two Hertfordshire primary care trusts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |All practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)|All practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) per 100,000 head of population| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |England |33,091 |65.3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East Of England |3,568 |64.4 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |East and North Hertfordshire PCT |317 |61.1 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |West Hertfordshire PCT |349 |65.9 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Note: General medical practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) includes GP and GP others. Sources: 1. The Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics. 2. Resident Population Estimates, Office for National Statistics.| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------