General Practitioners: Age
(asked on 27th May 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of GPs in England are over 50 years old.
This question was answered on 3rd June 2015
The annual National Health Service General and Personal Medical Services workforce census, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, shows the numbers of general practitioners (GPs) working in the NHS in England at 30 September each year. The latest available statistics are as at 30 September 2014 and were published on 25 March 2015. The percentage of GPs (excluding Registrars and Retainers) aged 50 years and over as at 30 September 2014 is 39%.