These are the GPs of the future. The table gives more details of joiners and leavers. Within these totals the table identifies the numbers of full and part-time GPs in each category. That information is not held centrally. Leavers are defined as UPEs recorded in the 1999 census but not in the 2000 census Joiners are defined as UPEs recorded in the 2000 census but not in the 1999 census although Rejoiners have been employed at some time prior to 1999 and new joiners are doctors who have not previously held a UPE post.
Part time is a combination of three-quarter time, half time and job share.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the impact of Project 2000 upon nurse recruitment. Between 1997 and 2000 the number of qualified nurses working in the National Health Service has increased by 17,100. Nurse recruitment is influenced by a range of factors including pay and working conditions and it is not possible to identify the impact of Project 2000 on this separately. None of these were submitted in 1999, four of the six were submitted in 2000 and the remaining two in 2001. Details are given in the table.