General Practitioners

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs in Great Britain and Northern Ireland registered to practise there were on 1 July 2017.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 7th September 2017

The information requested is not held by the Department.

The General Medical Council is the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom and has provided the following information:

The number of registered doctors on the general practitioner (GP) Register with a licence to practise at close of business on 30 June 2017 was 60,833.

The GP register covers the whole of the UK.

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