Table 2.
Comparing demographics of doctors under GMC’s performance assessment with UK medical register between years 1996–2014
| Doctors under performance assessment between 1996 and 2013 | Doctors on medical register in 1996 | Doctors on medical register in 2014 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | M | 919 (83%) | 125,980 (69%) | 148,562 (56%) |
| F | 192 (17%) | 56,570 (31%) | 118,597 (44%) | |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| White | 450 (41%) | 72,909 (40%) | 139,177 (52%) | |
| Black minority ethnic | 661 (59%) | 19,419 (11%) | 78,285 (29%) | |
| Unknown | 0 | 90,229 (49%) | 49,697 (19%) | |
| Age | ||||
| 21–30 | 17 (2%) | 30,600 (17%) | 42,790 (16%) | |
| 31–40 | 109 (10%) | 47,422 (26%) | 80,839 (30%) | |
| 41–50 | 257 (23%) | 33,846 (19%) | 67,322 (25%) | |
| 51–60 | 322 (29%) | 20,893 (11%) | 46,223 (17%) | |
| 61–70 | 208 (19%) | 16,121 (9%) | 19,733 (7%) | |
| 71–80 | 32 (3%) | 8,087 (4%) | 4,965 (2%) | |
| 81+ | n/a | 1,557 (<1%) | 1,210 (<1%) | |
| Unknown | 163 (15%) | 24,031 (13%) | 4,077 (2%) | |
| Specialty | ||||
| Acute medicine | 67 (6%) | 4,441 (14%) | 13,187 (9%) | |
| Medicine | 134 (12%) | 10,311 (33%) | 29,872 (20%) | |
| Surgery | 202 (18%) | 7,063 (23%) | 19,319 (13%) | |
| Psychiatry | 49 (4%) | 3,581 (12%) | 9,365 (6%) | |
| GP | 493 (44%) | a n/a | 65,127 (44%) | |
| Other | 20 (2%) | 5,634 (18%) | 11,088 (7%) | |
| Unspecified | 146 (13%) | 0 | 0 | |
| TOTAL | 1111 | 31,030 | 147,958 | |
a GP register only began in 2006