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	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	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 and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of patients waiting at least three weeks to see a GP.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	202044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensuring everyone across the country has easier and more convenient access to general practice services, including appointments in the evenings and weekends.</p><p> </p><p>The latest National Health Service planning guidance, issued by NHS England in February 2018, brought forward the deadline for clinical commissioning groups to provide extended access to general practice services to 1 October 2018, to ensure additional capacity is in place ahead of winter 2018. This includes ensuring that access is available during peak times of demand, including bank holidays and across the Easter, Christmas and New Year periods.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>The number of doctors entering GP speciality training has been increasing year on year, this year HEE recruited the highest number of GP trainees ever - 3,473 GP trainees against a target of 3,250, a 10% increase on last year.</p><p> </p><p>Greater skill mix is also key to releasing capacity in general practice, we have committed to investment in the multidisciplinary workforce in general practice. As of June 2018, there were</p><p>over 3,300 additional clinical staff, excluding GPs, working in general practice since 2015; consisting of over 500 more nurses and 2,800 more other direct patient care.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/12/2018 17:06:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1127797

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	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 and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of standard 10-minute appointments with GPs.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	256915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>No specific work has been done centrally to assess the effectiveness of the standard 10 minute consultation. However, there is no contractual obligation regarding the length of appointments in general practice.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 04/06/2019 16:30:35 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1144689

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	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 and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the average waiting time for an appointment to see a GP in (a) England and Wales and (b) Coventry.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	286633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The most recent data on the time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment (in days) for Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) as well as for England are presented in the following table as the average over the 12 months from August 2018 to July 2019.</p><p>The data is taken from the NHS Digital publication ‘Appointments in General Practice’. This is a new experimental data collection which is still being refined and improved.</p><p>It should be noted that the ‘time from booking to appointment’ refers only to the time elapsed between the successful booking of an appointment and the appointment actually taking place. The data does not take into consideration that many patients will be appropriately booking ahead as part of the continuity of care they receive for long-term conditions.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Coventry and Rugby CCG</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Distribution of average time elapsed between booking an appointment and the appointment taking place, August 2018 to July 2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Same Day</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Day</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 to 7 Days</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8 to 14 Days</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 or more</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> Notes:</p><ol><li>There are several factors that drive the time from a booking to an appointment. This includes appointment availability at the practice, patient availability, the urgency of the appointment and general practitioner (GP) advice.</li><li>The data does not differentiate between emergency and routine appointments in general practice.</li><li>The data does not include any information about the patients or clinical information.</li><li>The data in the response includes appointments with all healthcare professional types, including GPs and other practice staff.</li><li>Not all practices in England are included in the appointments in general practice publication, meaning the total number of appointments is not known.</li><li>Same day and next day bookings are of particular interest so are presented here separately. Further bookings are presented grouped by weeks.</li><li>The number of appointments that have already happened is provided as recorded in participating practices in England. The data presented only contains information which was captured on the GP practice systems. This limits the activity reported on and does not represent all work happening within a primary care setting.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 09/09/2019 15:11:04 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham