General Practitioners: Retirement
(asked on 14th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of GPs currently working in the NHS who will have retired by 2024.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st June 2022
No specific estimate has been made as a general practitioner’s (GPs) decision to retire can be influenced by many factors. We are working to increase the general practice workforce, address the reasons why doctors leave the profession and encourage them to return to practice. The updated GP Contract Framework for 2020/21 announced a number of new retention schemes and continued support for existing schemes, to retain more GPs.