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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

968368

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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 to see a GP in England was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	170916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time for a general practitioner (GP) appointment is not collected or held centrally. In the 2018 GP patient survey 61.6% of respondents (who could remember whether or not they were able to get an appointment, and when they wanted the appointment) stated they saw or spoke to someone at a time they wanted to or sooner. NHS England is working with NHS Digital to consider ways of improving the availability and quality of GP data, including waiting times data.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to improving access to general practice services by 2019. This includes ensuring there are sufficient routine appointments available at evenings and weekends to meet locally determined demand, alongside effective access to out of hours and urgent care services. The latest National Health Service planning guidance, issued by NHS England in February 2018, requires clinical commissioning groups to provide extended access to general practice to their whole population by 1 October 2018, to ensure additional capacity is in place ahead of winter 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/09/2018 13:15:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth