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Online news - 29 January 2010
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Rise in number of Scottish GPs

There has been a steady increase in the headcount of GPs contracted to work in Scottish practices over the last five years, rising from 4,456 in 2004 to 4,941 in 2009 (an increase of 10.9%).

An increasing proportion of contracted GPs are female and in 2009, for the first time, females outnumbered males, with a 50.7% share of the total headcount, compared with 45.4% in 2004.

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