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<p>The information requested is not centrally collected. Departmental officials are
aware that the General Medical Council does collect some demographic data about doctors
and this is published in its annual report ‘The state of medical education and practice
in the UK’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent
regulator of health and adult social care in England, has registered all general practitioner
(GP) practices since April 2012. The CQC’s role is to inspect and regulate GP practices,
including those practices run by single-handed GPs. The CQC regulates at a provider
level and may remove a practice’s registration where care is not meeting the required
standard. Actions taken against an individual GP would be the responsibility of NHS
England for contractual issues and the General Medical Council for professional issues.</p><p>
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