Doctors

(asked on 29th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors have requested a certificate of current professional status in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 6th November 2015

The information requested is not held centrally. Information from the General Medical Council is available about the number of doctors that have been issued certificates of current professional status in each of the last five full calendar years. This is shown in the table.


Year

Number

2010

4,352

2011

4,832

2012

5,163

2013

5,142

2014

4,925

Source: General Medical Council

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