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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), 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>
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