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Table 2 Comparing demographics of doctors under GMC’s performance assessment with UK medical register between years 1996–2014

From: Prevalence of GMC performance assessments in the United Kingdom: a retrospective cohort analysis by country of medical qualification

 

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

  1. a GP register only began in 2006