PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners: Rural Areas (24 June 2014)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many rural GP surgeries have fewer than 1,000 patients registered.
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
The requested information is not collected centrally in the requested format. There were 45 general practitioner practices in England on 30 September 2013 with less than 1,000 patients registered to them. The Health and Social Care Information Centre does not hold data on whether the practices are rural or not.
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
Answered by:
Dr Dan Poulter (Labour)
1 July 2014
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