General Practitioners: Standards

(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

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.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 3rd December 2014

Data on waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) is not collected.

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.

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