General Practitioners: Working Hours
(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs were full-time in (a) 2010 and (b) 2016.
This question was answered on 3rd November 2016
There is no standard definition of full-time working in the latest General Medical Services contract. There is also no consistent time series to estimate the number of full-time general practitioners in 2010 and 2016.
The latest data from NHS Digital for March 2016 shows that 14,159 general practitioners (excluding Locums) worked at least full time.