The removal of patients from doctors' lists causes con public and political concern, with speculation patients are removed for inappropriate, including , reasons. In 1999 the House of Commons Committee on Public Administration noted that evidence was available on either the frequency of, the reasons for, removal of patients. National statistics do not distinguish between patients removed after out of a practice area and those removed for reasons. Two postal surveys have reported why practitioners might, in general, remove , and one small study has described the doctors give for particular removals. We determined the current scale of, and doctors' for, removal of patients from their lists in Eng and Wales.
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Mark Pickin (2001) studied this question.