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List of Registered Medical Practitioners - statistics Registration statistics This page contains statistical information about doctors on the List of Registered Medical Practitioners (LRMP), the General Practitioners (GP) Register and the Specialist Register. The statistics are updated on a monthly basis and were last updated on 3 July 2017. The LRMP contains details of doctors registered to practise medicine in the United Kingdom. The GP Register contains a list of doctors who are registered to practise as General Practitioners in the United Kingdom. The Specialist Register is a register of doctors who are eligible to work as substantive, fixed term or honorary consultants in the health service in the UK. To work as a GP or consultant doctors must be registered on the GP/Specialist Register as well as the LRMP. Doctors must also have a licence to practise in order to perform the duties of a doctor and treat patients. More information about registration and licensing can be found within The Medical Register and Licensing sections of the website. If you have any suggestions about other statistical information you would like included on this page, please contact
[email protected] or call 0161 923 6365. For more details about accessing information, please go to the Accessing Information section of the website. Below is a list of all the tables and charts available. These are separated into the current statistics and those covering the period of 2007 to 2016.
Current Statistics Registration status on the LRMP Registration status
No. of doctors
%
No. of doctors licensed
%
232,708
82.7%
191,680
80.9%
40,461
14.4%
36,948
15.6%
8,187
2.9%
8,124
3.4%
Temporary full registration for special purpose registrations**
50
0.0%
50
0.0%
Visiting EEA registration***
34
0.0%
34
0.0%
281,440
100.0%
236,836
100.0%
Full registration Full registration in an Approved Practice Setting* Provisional registration
Total doctors registered on LRMP
*Approved practice settings (APS) are organisations approved by the GMC as suitable for doctors who are new to full registration, or returning to the medical register after a prolonged absence. **Special purpose registration allows doctors to be registered for a temporary period in order to treat non-UK nationals within the UK. This includes visiting eminent specialists. ***Visiting EEA registration refers to doctors who are European Economic Area nationals wishing to work in the UK temporarily. They are registered through a fast track process and placed on the visiting EEA practitioners list.
Doctors on the GP and Specialist Registers Register*
No. of doctors
%
No. of doctors licensed
%
Specialist Register
90,310
33.2%
75,291
31.8%
GP Register
67,657
24.0%
60,827
25.8%
281,440
100.0%
236,836
100.0%
Total no. of doctors on LRMP *Please note that doctors can be registered on both the Specialist or GP Registers. Not all doctors are on the Specialist or GP Registers
Doctors by gender for each register LRMP Gender
Specialist Register
No. of doctors
%
GP Register
No. of doctors
%
No. of doctors
%
Man
153,303
54.5%
59,564
66.0%
32,350
47.8%
Woman
128,137
45.5%
30,746
34.0%
35,307
52.2%
Total
281,440
100.0%
90,310
100.0%
67,657
100.0%
Doctors by age group Age group
No. of doctors
%