General Practitioners
(asked on 15th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many general practitioner practices in England have closed since June 2010; and how many have opened since January 2013.
The data requested is shown in the following table. It is not possible to show this by calendar month.
It is important to note that these figures also include practice mergers and takeovers and do not provide an accurate representation of activity or service provision. For example, the merger of three practices would show as three practices closing and one opening.
| Closed: England | Opened: England |
2010 | 79
| x |
2011 | 111
| x |
2012 | 124
| x |
2013 | 126
| 13 |
2014 (to 31 August) | 78 | 9 |
Source: HSCIC
Notes:
Details for opened practices in 2010 to 2012 have not been provided, but are available.