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.
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