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<p>Data on appointments in general practice have only been available since November
2017. The most recent data on the time between booking an appointment with a general
practice and having the appointment (in days) for Havering Clinical Commissioning
Group (CCG) and England are presented in the table below as the average over the 12
months from September 2018 to August 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. NHS Digital is unable to provide general
practitioner (GP) appointments data at parliamentary constituency level. Romford constituency
does not align perfectly to a CCG; it has therefore provided data for Havering CCG,
which includes the town of Romford.</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 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><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Havering
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, September 2018 to August 2019. (Numbers may not add to 100% due to rounding.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Same
Day</p></td><td><p>35%</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>18%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15
to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 to 28 Days</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More
than 28 Days</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>5%</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>Source:
NHS Digital, Appointments in General Practice</p><p>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 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 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><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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