General Practitioners: Warrington

(asked on 26th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for a non-emergency GP appointment was in Warrington at the last date for which figures are available.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 3rd April 2019

The time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment in days for Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is presented in the following table for January 2019, the latest data available. A 12 month average from February 2018-January 2019 has also been added.

Time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment (days)

Percentage of appointments Warrington CCG

January 2019

Average over the 12 months February 18 – January 19

Same Day

45.1%

46.1%

1 Day

8.0%

7.8%

2 to 7 Days

18.1%

17.1%

8 to 14 Days

13.0%

12.9%

15 to 21 Days

6.6%

7.3%

22 to 28 Days

3.9%

4.2%

More than 28 Days

5.1%

4.7%

Total

100.0%

100.0%

The time between booking an appointment with a general practice and having the appointment in days for Warrington CCG is presented above for the last published month January 2019 and as a 12 month average from February 2018 - January 2019.

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