§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 7 February,Official Report, column 229–30, if he will give the aggregate numbers of general practices in the fundholding and non-fundholding categories and the total number of
Practices GPs (whole-time equivalent) Patients Column 1 Non-fundholders Column 2 fundholders Column 3 Non-fundholders Column 4 Fundholders Column 5 Non-fundholders Column 6 Fundholders 1992–93 Argyll and Clyde 100 5 275.8 26.5 409,874 36,944 Ayrshire and Arran 60 4 232.8 14.8 365,971 25,475 Borders 22 1 70.3 4.8 100,153 7,064 Dumfries and Galloway 36 — 111.8 — 153,280 — Fife 59 2 196.3 11.8 328,138 23,177 Forth Valley 53 2 179.8 7 277,793 12,369 Grampian 65 25 177.9 146.8 281,721 251,365 Greater Glasgow 219 4 588.6 22 970,192 39,328 Highland 74 1 166 8 200,111 12,311 Lanarkshire 83 9 271.3 48.3 489,873 93,750 Lothian 124 12 444.8 48 724,778 78,247 Orkney 15 — 24.0 — 20,047 — Shetland 11 — 19.0 — 22,770 — Tayside 67 10 207.3 43.3 337,168 73,125 Western Isles 15 — 30.0 — 29,977 — Scotland 1,003 75 2,995.7 381.3 4,711,846 653,155 1993–94 Argyll and Clyde 100 5 273.0 26.5 406,156 36,476 Ayrshire and Arran 58 5 230 21.0 357,126 34,588 Borders 20 3 63.8 10.8 91,605 16,028 Dumfries and Galloway 35 1 107.8 4.5 145,942 7,097 Fife 59 4 191.0 21.5 312,824 39,813 Forth Valley 51 4 171.5 18.0 259,114 31,421 Grampian 50 39 133.0 197.3 205,865 331,612 Greater Glasgow 212 11 554.6 55.3 910,275 90,409 Highland 68 7 154.5 21.0 184,026 29,225 Lanarkshire 79 14 228.0 92.0 409,664 174,173 Lothian 118 18 402.5 98.5 645,354 159,376 Orkney 15 — 24.0 — 20,079 — Shetland 11 — 19.0 — 22,944 — Tayside 68 11 201.8 50.8 326,492 83,849 Western Isles 15 — 31.0 — 29,828 — Scotland 959 122 2,785.3 617.2 4,327,296 1,034,067 As requested in column 2 for each year the figures represent the number of individual general practices involved in Fundholding rather than the number of Fundholders since more than one practice may group together to manage a single fund.
66Wgeneral practitioners in each category on a full-time equivalent basis and the number of list patients covered at each of the dates specified.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 17 February 1995]: The information requested is set out in the table.
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