General Practitioners: Blackpool
(asked on 19th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients in the Blackpool NHS Trust had to wait longer than 48 hours for a GP appointment in (a) 2010 and (b) 2015.
This question was answered on 24th March 2015
Data on waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) is not collected.
The mandatory 48 hour waiting time target was removed, based on clinical advice, because it was seen as too inflexible in meeting the needs of patients. GP patient survey data 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.