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<p>Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) currently only captures data from four
of its 23 general practices due to interoperability issues with one of the clinical
system suppliers. However, national roll out of a new system to share this data is
expected this month, meaning the relevant data for the remaining practices in Bexley
should be available from May 2019.</p><p> </p><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 Bexley CCG is presented in the attached table for the
last available published date which was 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> </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> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Bexley</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Bexley</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</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>35.8%</p></td><td><p>42.3%</p></td><td><p>38.1%</p></td><td><p>42.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1
Day</p></td><td><p>6.2%</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2
to 7 Days</p></td><td><p>20.6%</p></td><td><p>19.8%</p></td><td><p>22.9%</p></td><td><p>20.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8
to 14 Days</p></td><td><p>20.1%</p></td><td><p>14.4%</p></td><td><p>17.2%</p></td><td><p>13.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15
to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>8.5%</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td><td><p>7.4%</p></td><td><p>7.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22
to 28 Days</p></td><td><p>5.8%</p></td><td><p>5.1%</p></td><td><p>4.7%</p></td><td><p>5.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More
than 28 Days</p></td><td><p>2.9%</p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</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>
</p><p>The time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having
the appointment, in days, for all data available in Bexley CCG is presented above
for the last published month February 2019 and as a 12 month average from March 2018
- February 2019 along with a comparison to the average across all appointments in
England.</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Data has only been able to be captured from up to
four out of the 23 GP practices in Bexley due to interoperability issues with one
of the clinical system suppliers.</li><li>NHS Digital currently only publish data
from Egton Medical Information Systems (EMIS) and The Phoenix Partnership (TPP) practice
systems but are working with other general practitioner (GP) systems to bring them
on board in future developments.</li><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 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 EMIS and TPP 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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