HC Deb 07 November 1989 vol 159 c570W
70. Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about trends in the average general practitioner's list size since 1979.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Over the last 10 years the average list size of family doctors in England has continued to fall from 2,286 in 1979 to 1,999 in 1988, a decrease of more than 12 per cent.