§ Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, in each year from 1952 to the nearest available date, what percentage of general practitioners in the medical profession took advantage of postgraduate schemes.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellI regret that the information is not available in the exact form asked for. The following table shows, for the years indicated, the total number of general practitioners90W recorded as attending postgraduate refresher courses in Scotland, under arrangements financed by the Scottish Home and Health Department, expressed as a percentage of the number of doctors in general practice in the Service in Scotland in those years. Some doctors attend more than one course in a year, and the percentages reflect this element of duplication.
1954 … … … … 10.88 1955 … … … … 11.11 1956 … … … … 16.96 1957 … … … … 18.15 1958 … … … … 24.52 1959 … … … … 26.32 1960 … … … … 29.06 1961 … … … … 29.95 1962 … … … … 32.67 1963 … … … … 35.11 1964 … … … … 35.35 1965 … … … … 46.81 1966 … … … … 47.45 1967 … … … … 49.37 1968 … … … … 69.03 1969 … … … … 87.04