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The graph below shows that during the 2009-10 financial year specialist medical businesses had 724,000 total patient contacts in an average working week. Female patients accounted for 53.6% of this total. Specialist practitioners had an average of 78 patient contacts per working week.
Specialist practitioner patient contacts by patient gender and age(a)