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1346004

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
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	What steps he is taking to help improve the quality of local GP practices.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	902652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>In January 2019 a five-year framework for general practitioner (GP) contract reform was agreed to implement the commitments made in the NHS Long Term Plan, including care quality and outcomes improvement.</p><p>In 2020 we also committed at least an additional £1.5 billion for general practice until 2023 to support our commitment to recruit 26,000 extra staff to support GPs and ensure patients have better access to a wider range of health professionals.</p><p>We have also made an additional investment of an extra £4.5 billion a year by 2023/24 in primary and community care.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/07/2021 17:00:34 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1283536

registered interest
date	03/02/2021
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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2021 to Question 140237 on General Practitioners, what plans he has to publish the information requested in that Question in the format so requested.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	148886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes ‘Appointments in General Practice’ data which cannot be used to measure waiting times in general practice. 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. This is an experimental data collection which is still being refined and improved.</p><p>Data showing the time between booking an appointment with a general practice and the appointment taking place for practices is published at national, regional, sustainability and transformation partnership and clinical commissioning group level.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 148885 question first answered 24/02/2021 16:03:15 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1283539

registered interest
date	03/02/2021
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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2021 to Question 140237 on General Practitioners, what recent steps he has taken to support GPs to reduce appointment waiting times.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	148887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>We will create an extra 50 million appointments in general practice a year and increase the workforce by 6,000 more doctors and 26,000 more primary care professionals, such as physiotherapists, social prescribers and pharmacists. NHS England and NHS Improvement and Health Education England are working together with the profession to boost recruitment, address the reasons why doctors leave the profession and encourage them to return to practice.</p><p>This will mean bigger teams of staff providing a wider range of care options for patients and will free up more time for doctors to focus on those with more complex needs. Appointment numbers have risen from 16.6 million in April 2020 to 24 million in December 2020.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 24/02/2021 16:29:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1185410

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
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 estimate he has made of the number of GP appointments made in (a) 2019 and (b) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	30099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The estimated number of general practice appointments for 2019 is shown in the following table. Figures for 2015 are not available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of general practice appointments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>312.0 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The data in the response includes appointments with all healthcare professional types, including general practitioners (GPs) and other practice staff.</li><li>Monthly appointment totals are affected by seasonality and the number of working days in a month. For this reason, we use 12-month totals comparisons over time.</li><li>The January 2020 publication included data from over 95.8% of GP practices, covering over 96.5% of all registered patients and all clinical commissioning groups. Data from all four main system suppliers - EMIS, TPP, Microtest and Vision - are included in the publication.</li><li>The publication draws on responses from practices that use management information systems supplied by the four main GP information system providers in England. Between them, these supply approximately 95% of the systems in use in England.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 24/03/2020 15:33:43 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1180305

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
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 effect on average waiting times for patients seeking GP surgery appointments caused by (a) changes to GP contracts and (b) other (i) administrative and (ii) clinical factors over the past 20 years; what plans he has to improve the present situation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	New Forest East
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
uin	20365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The data in question is not currently held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 02/03/2020 17:03:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1176099

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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, how many GP patients in (a) Preston, (b) the North West and (c) England failed to secure a same-day appointment with their GP practice in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	12219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The data on the number of patients that have failed to secure a general practice appointment is not collected or held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/02/2020 17:27:55 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1175083

registered interest
date	31/01/2020
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 estimate her Department has made of the length of waiting times for GP appointments by region in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	10773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>Data showing the proportion of time between booking an appointment with a general practice and the appointment taking place by National Health Service regions in England in the 12 months up to December 2019 are presented in the attached table.</p><p>NHS Digital publishes ‘Appointments in General Practice’. This is an 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 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><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 05/02/2020 16:06:07 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name PQ10773 TABLE Waiting Times by Region_.docx title Waiting Times
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1171138

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
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 the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in (a) the London Borough of Romford, (b) Greater London and (c) England in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	3689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <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), NHS London Region and England are presented in the attached table as the average over the 12 months from December 2018 to November 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 appointments in general practice 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><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/01/2020 14:35:44 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name PQ3689 table formatted.docx title P3689 table
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1151320

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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 the average waiting time was for a patient to see a GP in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear, (d) the North East and (e) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	3575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <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 South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS England North East and Yorkshire (Cumbria and North East) Regional Local Office, and England are presented in the table below as the average over the 12 months from September 2018 to August 2019. NHS Digital is unable to provide data for all the geographical areas requested as the data is collected at CCG level, but has provided data for three included in the table.</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>South Tyneside CCG</p></td><td><p>NHS England North East and Yorkshire (Cumbria and North East) Regional Local Office</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><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>38%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Day</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 to 7 Days</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8 to 14 Days</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 to 28 Days</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than 28 Days</p></td><td><p>3%</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><td><p>100.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </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 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> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/10/2019 17:43:04 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

1150068

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
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 the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	1046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <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 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.</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>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Distribution of average time elapsed between booking an appointment and the appointment taking place, September 2018 to August 2019. (Number may not add to 100% due to rounding.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Same Day</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Day</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 to 7 Days</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8 to 14 Days</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15 to 21 Days</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 to 28 Days</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than 28 Days</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>- Data Quality Notes</p><p>- 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.</p><p>- The data does not differentiate between emergency and routine appointments in general practice.</p><p>- The data does not include any information about the patients or clinical information</p><p>- The data in the response includes appointments with all healthcare professional types, including GPs and other practice staff.</p><p>- Not all practices in England are included in the appointments in general practice publication, meaning the total number of appointments is not known.</p><p>- Same day and next day bookings are of particular interest so are presented here separately. Further bookings are presented grouped by weeks.</p><p>- 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.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 21/10/2019 16:58:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth