General Practitioners: Retirement

(asked on 26th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of how many GPs working in the NHS will retire by 2020.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 31st January 2017

General Practitioners (GPs) do not have a mandatory retirement age. Any member of the National Health Service Pensions scheme can retire earlier or later than their normal pension age (minimum age is 55, maximum age is 75). It is a matter of individual choice.

Health Education England (HEE) produce local and national forecasts of workforce supply covering the next five years. HEE and NHS England are using these forecasts to develop a programme to improve retention among doctors of all ages in general practice. This includes the Retained Doctor Scheme, which is a support package that includes development support and financial incentives to help GPs who might otherwise leave the profession to remain in clinical general practice.

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