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<p>The proportion of general practitioner (GP) appointments by date and time between
booking date and appointment date in Oxford Clinical Commissioning Group for the months
November 2017 to December 2018 is presented in the attached table. The data on GP
appointments are from a new data collection and are still experimental i.e. the data
and collection method are still being refined and improved. NHS Digital’s data on
‘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. Other factors that drive the time from a booking to an appointment
include appointment availability at the practice, patient availability, the urgency
of the appointment and GP advice.</p>
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