§ Mr. Bruce Gardyneasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the minimum number of doctors in general practice in Scotland required to operate the National Health Service; and when, on an extrapolation of present trends, he expects the number to fall below that minimum requirement.
§ Mr. Bruce-Gardyneasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of principals providing unrestricted general medical services per 100,000 of the population for Scotland as a whole and for each of the counties in Scotland.
§ Mr. RossThe last available figures are as follows:200W
Numbers of Principals providing unrestricted general medical services, per 100,000 of the population Scotland 48.4 Aberdeen and Kincardine 56.8 Angus 48.3 Argyll and Bute 82.0 Ayr 44.0 Banff, Moray and Nairn 66.3 Caithness 57.1 Dumfries 50.5 Dunbarton 46.0 Fife 46.4 Galloway (Kirkcudbcenter and Wigtown) 64.5 Inverness 61.5 Lanark 40.5 Lothians and Peebles 46.7 Orkney 96.8 Perth and Kinross 59.9 Renfrew 42.5 Ross and Cromarty 74.0 Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk 58.6 Stirling and Clackmannan 46.5 Sutherland 104.5 Zetland 73.9 City of Aberdeen 46.6 City of Dundee 45.8 City of Edinburgh 48.3 City of Glasgow 45.8 NOTES
(a) The areas shown are those of Executive Councils some of which are responsible for the provision of general medical services in more than one county.
(b) The figures relate to estimated civilian population at 31st December, 1965 and the numbers of unrestricted principals at 1st July, 1966.
§ Mr. Bruce-Gardyneasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total number of principals providing unrestricted medical services in general practice in Scotland on 1st October, 1964 and at the beginning of each successive quarter between that time and 1st October, 1966, inclusive.
§ Mr. RossThe numbers were as follows:
1st October, 1964 … 2,656 1st January, 1965 … 2,652 1st April, 1965 … 2,644 1st July, 1965 … 2,625 1st October, 1965 … 2,611 1st January, 1966 … 2,594 1st April, 1966 … 2,588 1st July, 1966 … 2,593 1st October, 1966 (provisional) … 2,574