Surge in female doctors
MOST UK doctors will be women after 2017, a report will say today. But as the number of women in medicine grows, challenges lie ahead for the NHS.
Women are far more likely than men to work part-time and choose specialities where they have "set" hours, according to the study by the Royal College of Physicians. This could lead to a shortage of doctors in some specialities.
At present, women account for 40 per cent of all doctors, 42 per cent of GPs and 28 per cent of consultants. But they will make up the majority of GPs by 2013 and the majority of the medical workforce some time after 2017.
Compared with the early 1960s, the number of men entering medical schools each year has doubled, but among women it has risen tenfold.
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