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	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on overall satisfaction levels of waiting times for GP appointments; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	204832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The general practitioner (GP) contract does not include any targets regarding waiting times for appointments. Under the terms of their contracts, GPs are required to provide primary medical services between 8am – 6.30pm from Monday to Friday to meet the reasonable needs of their patients.</p><p> </p><p>The latest GP patient survey results, published this month, found that 74.6% of patients rate their overall experience of making an appointment as good.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister's £50 million Challenge Fund will help over 1,100 practices, covering 7.5 million people, to develop new ways of improving GP access, including better access to GPs in evenings and at weekends and greater use of telephone, email and skype consultations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 204796 question first answered 16/07/2014 14:50:50 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

76815

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the targets are on waiting times for appointments within the latest GP contract.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	204796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The general practitioner (GP) contract does not include any targets regarding waiting times for appointments. Under the terms of their contracts, GPs are required to provide primary medical services between 8am – 6.30pm from Monday to Friday to meet the reasonable needs of their patients.</p><p> </p><p>The latest GP patient survey results, published this month, found that 74.6% of patients rate their overall experience of making an appointment as good.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister's £50 million Challenge Fund will help over 1,100 practices, covering 7.5 million people, to develop new ways of improving GP access, including better access to GPs in evenings and at weekends and greater use of telephone, email and skype consultations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 204832 question first answered 16/07/2014 14:50:50 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham