General Practitioners (Hansard, 16 June 1994)

§ Ms Primarolo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the recruitment of general practitioners.

§ Dr. Mawhinney
The number of general practitioners is at an all-time high and has risen from 21,357 at 1 October 1979 to 26,289 at 1 October 1993, an increase of over 23 per cent.

§ Ms Primarolo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on stress among general practitioners.

§ Dr. Mawhinney
Family doctors deliver a high standard of care across a wide range of services. We recognise that the responsibility for maintaining high-quality services can lead to stress in some doctors and we have recently agreed to provide financial support for a study by the Royal College of General Practitioners into the effects of stress on general practitioners.