HL Deb 17 December 1975 vol 366 cc1557-9WA
Lord TAYLOR

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many general practitioners there are in each Regional Health Authority area in England and Wales, and in

Total Total Number Working in Health Centres*
Northern Regional Health Authority … … 1,301 318
Yorkshire Regional Health Authority … … 1,515 277
Trent Regional Health Authority … … 1,833 373
East Anglian Regional Health Authority … … 766 77
North West Thames Regional Health Authority … … 1,691 117
North East Thames Regional Health Authority … … 1,731 137
South East Thames Regional Health Authority … … 1,620 59
South West Thames Regional Health Authority … … 1,323 201
Wessex Regional Health Authority … … 1,136 177
Oxford Regional Health Authority … … 927 149
South Western Regional Health Authority … … 1,469 353
West Midlands Regional Health Authority … … 2,171 281
Mersey Regional Health Authority … … 1,045 117
North Western Regional Health Authority … … 1,691 244
England … … 20,219 2,880
Wales … … 1,291 275
Scotland … … 2,745 382
Great Britain … … 24,255 3,537
* Provisional figures; these may include some doctors who are not providing the full range of general medical services.

Lord TAYLOR

asked Her Majesy's Government:

If general practitioners who work in health centres have to agree to give up private medical practice as a condition of entry into health centres; and if this is so, for what reason this condition is imposed.

Scotland, and how many in each area work in health centres.

Lord WELLS-PESTELL

At 1st October 1974 the numbers of doctors providing the full range of general medical services in each Regional Health Authority area in England and Wales, and in Scotland, and the numbers working in health centres were as follows:

Lord WELLS-PESTELL

No such condition is imposed or contemplated. Doctors providing general medical services for NHS patients in health centres are and will continue to be permitted, subject only to such conditions as are necessary to safeguard public expenditure and the interests of NHS patients, to provide such services there for their private patients.

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