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724171

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in (a) Woking constituency, (b) Surrey, (c) the South East and (d) England in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Information on the average waiting time for general practitioner (GP) appointments at local and national level is not collected or held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The GP Patient Survey, published by NHS England, asks respondents across England how long it took for them to see a GP or a nurse after contacting their practice. The full set of survey releases can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://gp-patient.co.uk/surveys-and-reports" target="_blank">https://gp-patient.co.uk/surveys-and-reports</a></p><p> </p><p>According to the latest release, published in July 2016:</p><p> </p><p>- Almost two in five patients (37.6%) said that they were able to see or speak to someone on the same day as initially contacting the surgery,</p><p>- One in ten (10.7%) saw someone on the next working day,</p><p>- Three in ten patients (29.3%) saw or spoke to someone a few days later,</p><p>- 18.6% waited a week or more to see or speak to someone.</p><p>This does not take account of circumstances where patients express a preference to pre-book an appointment for a later date.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to general practice. By 2020, everyone will have access to routine evening and weekend appointments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 27/04/2017 07:28:23 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

722499

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in (a) Bristol East, (b) Bristol and (c) the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	71384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Information on the average waiting time for general practitioner (GP) appointments at local and national level is not collected or held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The GP Patient Survey, published by NHS England, asks respondents how long it took for them to see a GP or a nurse after contacting their practice. The full set of survey releases can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gp-patient.co.uk/surveys-and-reports" target="_blank">https://gp-patient.co.uk/surveys-and-reports</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to general practice. By 2020, everyone will have access to routine evening and weekend appointments. In Bristol there are a number of initiatives in place to increase GP access. For example, network practices, such as One Care Consortium, are currently offering extra pre-bookable GP appointments on weekends and bank holidays.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 24/04/2017 11:01:44 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

714146

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what proportion of people are waiting a week or more to see or speak to a GP; and what assessment he has made of the effects of access to GPs on attendances at accident and emergency departments.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	69147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>According to the latest GP Patient Survey, published in July 2016, 19.3% of patients saw or spoke to a health professional a week or more after initially contacting their surgery for an appointment. However, of those who waited a week or more, 33.3% said they wanted an appointment a week or more later, and 28.6% said they didn’t have a specific day in mind. 0.7% of total survey respondents said that they went to accident and emergency last time they wanted to see or speak to a general practitioner (GP) or nurse at their GP surgery, because they were not able to get an appointment or were offered an inconvenient appointment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to general practice, in part to reduce pressure on other parts of the National Health Service. By 2020, everyone will have access to routine evening and weekend appointments. We are, therefore, increasing investment in general practice by £2.4 billion by 2020/21 – this represents a 14% real terms increase. We are also committed to increasing the number of doctors working in general practice by 5,000 by 2020, in addition to providing another 5,000 extra other staff, for example mental health therapists and clinical pharmacists. Health Education England recruited the highest ever number of GP trainees in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 30/03/2017 13:06:21 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

385858

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what proportion of people in England and Wales are waiting for a week or more for an appointment with a GP; and what steps he is taking to decrease the length of such waits.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	4330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The data on waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) in England is not held centrally. The waiting times to see a GP in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Assembly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister’s Access Fund has so far invested £175 million (including £25 million from the £1 billion Infrastructure Fund) in 57 schemes in England covering over 2,500 practices. This means that a third of the country (over 18 million patients) will have benefitted from improved access and transformational change at local level by March 2016. These schemes include longer opening times, such as evenings and weekends, but also different ways of accessing services, such as online and by telephone.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/07/2015 11:38:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

381970

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what the average waiting time for a GP appointment is; and what the average waiting time is for referral to secondary care in (a) Edmonton and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	2941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The data on waiting times to see a general practitioner is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information for the average waiting time for referral to secondary care in England and Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (that covers Edmonton) is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Average (median) waiting times in weeks from referral to treatment<sup>1</sup>, April 2015</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Patients who were admitted to</p><p>hospital during the month</p></td><td><p>Patients who were not admitted</p><p>to hospital (e.g. outpatients)</p><p>during the month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Enfield Clinical</p><p>Commissioning Group</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em>The NHS Constitution sets out the right for patients to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 25/06/2015 16:07:47 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

347795

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what proportion of people are waiting a week or more to see or speak to a GP; and what assessment he has made of the effects of access to GPs on attendances at A&E departments.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	900024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>7% of people who wanted to see or speak to a general practitioner (GP) within a week were unable to do so.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Latest GP Patient Survey results suggest that less than 2% of patients who want GP appointments attend walk-in centres or accident and emergency departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/06/2015 15:21:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

166344

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, how many people in (a) each surgery in Corby constituency and (b) each clinical commissioning group area in England were unable to obtain a GP appointment within 48 hours in each month since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	216165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Data on waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) is not collected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 48 hour waiting time target was removed because it was seen as too inflexible in meeting the needs of patients. The GP patient survey showed that the proportion of people who wanted to get an appointment within two days (and were able to) actually fell between 2008-09 and 2009-10 i.e. when the target was in place.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 03/12/2014 13:35:48 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

100194

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
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, what the Government's benchmark waiting time is to see a General Practitioner for a routine appointment; and how that benchmark was set.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Pauline Latham
uin	211311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not set a benchmark for waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) for a routine appointment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 48 hour waiting time target was removed because it as seen as too inflexible in meeting the needs of patients. The GP patient survey showed that the proportion of people who wanted to get an appointment within 2 days (and were able to) actually fell between 2008-09 and 2009-10 i.e. when the target was in place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 27/10/2014 16:29:44 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham