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<p>The time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the
appointment (in days) for the practices where data is currently collected in Gloucestershire
Clinical Commissioning Group is presented in the following table for the last available
published date, February 2019. A 12- month average from March 2018-February 2019 has
also been presented along with a comparison to the average across all appointments
in England. NHS Digital’s ‘Appointments in General Practice’ data is published monthly
with a two-month time lag.</p><p>The appointments data does not differentiate between
emergency and routine appointments in general practice and the ‘time from booking
to appointment’ 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><p>The
data on general practitioner (GP) appointments are from a new data collection and
are still experimental therefore the data and collection method are still being refined
and improved. Whilst these early datasets published by NHS Digital do not yet represent
a comprehensive picture, they are an important key step in understanding pressures
on primary care. NHS England, NHS Digital and the government are working closely with
GPs to understand how the data on GP appointments can be refined to improve the overall
picture of primary care activity.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Time
between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment
(days)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>February 2019</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>March 2018
to February 2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Same Day</p></td><td><p>38.3%</p></td><td><p>42.3%</p></td><td><p>37.5%</p></td><td><p>42.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>One
Day</p></td><td><p>6.2%</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td><td><p>6.5%</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Two
to Seven Days</p></td><td><p>19.2%</p></td><td><p>19.8%</p></td><td><p>20.0%</p></td><td><p>20.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eight
to 14 Days</p></td><td><p>15.4%</p></td><td><p>14.4%</p></td><td><p>14.8%</p></td><td><p>13.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15
to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>9.1%</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td><td><p>8.6%</p></td><td><p>7.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22
to 28 Days</p></td><td><p>6.4%</p></td><td><p>5.1%</p></td><td><p>6.4%</p></td><td><p>5.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More
than 28 Days</p></td><td><p>5.4%</p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td><td><p>6.3%</p></td><td><p>4.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
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