Head Count as at September Each Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 All specialties 804 823 855 888 945 969 966 1,011 1,217 All medical specialties 787 808 837 874 928 957 949 991 1,193 Hospital medical specialties 779 801 831 864 919 948 941 977 1,118 Emergency medicine 32 35 31 31 49 44 54 48 51 Anaesthetics 71 72 84 87 88 92 97 83 133 Clinical laboratory specialties 31 33 35 38 40 40 41 39 56 Chemical pathology 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 Clinical genetics 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 Haematology 10 13 12 13 13 17 14 16 21 Histopathology 8 8 10 10 13 12 13 10 19 Immunology - - - - - - - - - Medical microbiology & virology 9 9 9 11 10 9 11 10 11 Medical specialties 307 308 324 336 358 387 390 438 417 Audiological medicine - - - - - - - - - Dermatology 5 5 5 7 7 9 10 8 13 General medicine (group) 167 163 178 209 215 220 193 218 204 Cardiology 19 22 14 24 17 19 27 24 24 Paediatric cardiology - - - - - - - - - Clinical pharmacology & therapeutics 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 3 2 Infectious diseases 7 6 7 7 8 11 9 12 8 Endocrinology & diabetes 9 7 8 9 11 8 7 6 12 Gastroenterology 10 11 13 12 15 13 16 11 23 General (acute) medicine 85 79 107 111 124 122 88 122 83 Renal medicine 14 15 9 18 14 17 18 17 18 Respiratory medicine 15 16 13 20 18 21 20 19 29 Rheumatology 6 5 5 6 6 5 4 4 5 Genito - urinary medicine 5 5 5 7 5 3 1 3 5 Geriatrics 28 38 31 24 27 32 52 86 49 Homoeopathy - - - - - - - - - Intensive care medicine 2 6 1 3 1 4 6 2 1 Medical oncology 7 8 14 21 13 13 14 20 32 Medical ophthalmology - - - - - - - - - Neurology 5 6 8 7 11 10 15 11 16 Paediatrics 61 51 57 35 56 65 66 68 79 Palliative medicine 4 4 5 5 4 5 5 4 6 Clinical oncology 15 10 12 11 12 18 21 13 6 Rehabilitation medicine 8 8 8 7 7 8 7 5 6 Clinical neuro-physiology - 4 - - - - - - - Obstetrics & gynaecology 41 45 45 42 48 46 46 51 54 Occupational medicine 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 Psychiatric specialties 91 94 92 95 94 101 93 84 104 Child & adolescent psychiatry 5 7 11 6 4 6 6 5 9 Forensic psychiatry 3 3 2 2 3 3 2 1 1 General psychiatry 69 75 73 79 77 81 75 72 83 Psychiatry of learning disability 3 3 1 3 4 4 5 2 2 Old age psychiatry 11 5 4 3 4 5 4 3 8 Psychotherapy - 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 Radiology 23 28 31 31 35 30 27 26...