Health written question – answered at on 12 May 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) average cost of each patient consultation to a general practitioner and (b) average (i) hourly and (ii) daily cost to the NHS of a general practitioner's time was in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
Data on general and personal medical services expenditure and activity are included in the Department's annual reports.
The report for 2004—Cm 6204—was published on
The Report is available in the Library and on the Department's website at http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/AnnualReports/DHAnnualReportsArticle/fs/en?CONTENT ID= 4080936&chk=OsqvVR
General practitioners are self-employed contractors to the national health service and so determine their own hours of work and the hours of work of the staff that they employ to assist them. It is not possible, therefore, to estimate hourly or daily rates for a GP's time.
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