Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2015 to Question 2849, how many GP practices in (a) England, (b) London, (c) the London Borough of Islington and (d) Islington South and Finsbury constituency have closed in each of the last ten years to April 2014.
The available information is contained in the following table. Information is not collected at parliamentary constituency level.
It is important to note that these figures also include practices which have merged or been taken over and do not provide an accurate representation of activity or service provision. The data also includes any organisation providing GP services, such as walk-in centres.
Year | Closed practices | ||
England | London | Islington Primary Care Trust | |
2004/05 | 129 | 24 | 0 |
2005/06 | 94 | 20 | 0 |
2006/07 | 83 | 10 | 0 |
2007/08 | 77 | 13 | 1 |
2008/09 | 78 | 11 | 0 |
2009/10 | 69 | 10 | 0 |
2010/11 | 91 | 9 | 0 |
2011/12 | 115 | 15 | 0 |
2012/13 | 145 | 22 | 1 |
2013/14 | 99 | 18 | 0 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Primary Care Information Service.