§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many foreign doctors have entered the United Kingdom to practise in each of the last five years.
§ Dr. OwenInformation in the from requested is not available. Table 1 gives
Hospital Doctors‡ RHB Administrative Medical Staff Year Number Whole-time equivalent General Practitioner* 1949 (31st December) … … … Not available† 11,735 61 17,651 1973 (30th September) … … … 29,668 27,401 152 21,615 1974 (30th September) … … … 30,515 28,408 No comparable figure 21,824 * Principals contracted to provide general medical services. † Statistics for 1949 related to numbers of appointments and did not eliminate duplication Numbers of doctors cannot, therefore, be given in a form comparable with recent statistics. ‡ The hospital figures exclude clinical assistants. A number of clinical assistants are also general practitioners and hence are counted in the last column. In 1973 there were 6,498 clinical assistants of whom 4,436 were also general practitioners.