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<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>
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