General Practitioners: Retirement
(asked on 19th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average retirement age of female GPs has been in each year from 2000 to 2014; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 22nd October 2015
This information is not held by the Department in the format requested.
The average age at which a National Health Service pension is drawn for general practitioners is 62 for males and 61 for females. Pension scheme members must leave their employment in order to claim their pension. This can be done at any time after the age of 55.