Figure 1: Number of persons and weighted requirements-planning totals in primary care.
In 2016, a number of identifiers that had been mis-reported in the past for primary-care and specialist physicians (in the case of internal-medicine specialists) were corrected. The increase for the year 2016 is due chiefly to this correction. Source: German National Register of Physicians (Bundesarztregister); SHI-accredited primary-care physicians contributing to healthcare provision (not including paediatricians); all figures as at year’s end.