§ Dr. Winstanleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table in the OFFICIAL REPORT showing the number of general medical practitioners in each executive council area whose list of patients exceed the permitted maximum of 3,500.
§ Mr. CrossmanNumber of doctors providing full general medical services in each Executive Council area in England whose lists of patients at 1st October, 1968 exceeded the maximum normally permitted by the regulations governing the general medical services (see notes below).
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Area Number of doctors ENGLAND: TOTAL 748 Bedfordshire and Luton 9 Berkshire 7 Buckinghamshire 7 Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 2 Cheshire 14 Cornwall — Cumberland 3 Derbyshire 10 Devon, Exeter and Torbay — Dorset — Durham 11 Essex 13 Gloucester County and City 9 Hampshire 8 Herefordshire — Hertfordshire 9 Huntingdonshire and Peterborough 2 Isle of Wight 2 Isles of Scilly — Lancashire 70 Leicestershire and Rutland 5 69W
Area Number of doctors Lincolnshire (Holland) — Lincolnshire (Kesteven) 1 Lincolnshire (Lindsey) 5 London—Inner 46 London—North East 16 London—South East and Kent 34 London—South West and Surrey 24 Middlesex 53 Norfolk 1 Northamptonshire 7 Northumberland 4 Nottingham County and City 14 Oxford County and City 1 Salop 7 Somerset 3 Staffordshire 10 Suffolk East — Suffolk West 1 Sussex East 5 Sussex West — Warwickshire and Solihull 13 Westmorland — Wiltshire 1 Worcestershire 6 Yorkshire East Riding — Yorkshire North Riding 1 Yorkshire West Riding 34 Barnsley 1 Barrow-in-Furness 1 Bath — Birkenhead 2 Birmingham 51 Blackburn 7 Blackpool — Bolton 2 Bootle — Bournemouth — Bradford 13 Brighton 1 Bristol 1 Burnley — Burton upon Trent 3 Bury — Carlisle — Chester — Coventry 7 Darlington 7 Derby 1 Dewsbury 2 Doncaster 6 Dudley 3 Eastbourne — Gateshead — Great Yarmouth 2 Grimsby 2 Halifax 4 Hartlepool — Hastings — Huddersfield 2 Ipswich — Kingston upon Hull 2 Leeds 8 Leicester 9 Lincoln 1 Liverpool 8 Manchester 10 Newcastle upon Tyne 4 Northampton — Norwich 3 Oldham 2 Plymouth 1 Portsmouth —
Area Number of doctors Preston 1 Reading 1 Rochdale 4 Rotherham 2 St. Helens — Salford 2 Sheffield 13 Warley 6 Southampton 4 Southend-on-Sea 5 Southport 2 South Shields — Stockport 2 Stoke-on-Trent 7 Sunderland 13 Teesside 5 Tynemouth — Wakefield — Wallasey — Walsall 16 Warrington — West Bromwich 14 Wigan — Wolverhampton 15 Worcester — York 2 Notes:
(1) The maximum numbers of patients normally permitted by the regulations are as follows:
- (a) For each doctor carrying on a practice otherwise than as a partner or assistant, 3,500.
- (b) For each doctor in partnership, 4,500 provided the average number per partner does not exceed 3,500.
- (c) For each single-handed doctor or partner employing one or more permanent assistants, the limits in (a) or (b) above may be increased by up to 2,000 patients.
(2) The figures in the table exclude any doctor with more than 3,500 patients who complies with (b) or (c) above. For the purpose of compiling the table it has been assumed that each doctor with an assistant has been allowed a further 2,000 patients.
(3) There are provisions in the regulations permitting a doctor in special circumstances to have more than the normal maximum number of patients, and there is therefore no presumption that the doctors listed above are in breach of the regulations.