§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of family medical practitioners by health board make use of night and weekend deputising services in Scotland; and whether he is now in a position to give the percentages who make extensive and excessive use of this particular service.
§ Mr. John MacKayInformation on the percentage of general medical practitioners who at 1 October 1983 had obtained health board consent to enter into regular or standing arrangements with a deputising service is as follows. As before, the information relates to those areas where the health board has given such consent to at least one practitioner. In the remaining nine areas no consents have been given by the health board. It is the responsibility of each health board to determine whether it is appropriate to impose conditions as to the use of deputising services and to review periodically consents given or conditions imposed. No information is held centrally on the extent to which individual practitioners make use of deputising services.
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Health Board Area Number of unrestricted principals (provisional) Number with consent to use a deputising service Number with consent to use a deputising service as a percentage of all unrestricted principals Argyll and Clyde 273 60 22 Grampian 281 11 4 Greater Glasgow 616 400 65 Lanarkshire 286 102 36 Lothian 473 85 18 Tayside 232 65 28