Specialty of doctors based in the United Kingdom in 2017

Leading specialties of doctors based in the United Kingdom in 2017

The data shows the leading specialties of doctors based in the UK in 2017. Anaesthetics was the most common specialty registered at 11.5 percent, followed by general (internal) medicine at 10.7%.

Anaesthetics 11.5
General (internal) medicine 10.7
Paediatrics 6.3
General psychiatry 5.8
Clinical radiology 5.4
General surgery 4.9
Obstetrics and gynaecology 4.5
Trauma and orthopaedic surgery 4.4
Ophthalmology 2.7
Cardiology 2.5
Histopathology 2.1
Gastroenterology 2
Respiratory medicine 1.6
Haematology 1.6
Emergency medicine 1.6
Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus 1.5
Child and adolescent psychiatry 1.5
Urology 1.5
Old age psychiatry 1.5
Otolaryngology 1.4