General Practitioners: Standards
(asked on 17th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for a GP appointment is; and what the average waiting time is for referral to secondary care in (a) Edmonton and (b) England.
The data on waiting times to see a general practitioner is not held centrally.
The information for the average waiting time for referral to secondary care in England and Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (that covers Edmonton) is shown in the following table.
Average (median) waiting times in weeks from referral to treatment1, April 2015
| Patients who were admitted to hospital during the month | Patients who were not admitted to hospital (e.g. outpatients) during the month |
NHS Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group | 8.3 | 6.6 |
England | 9.0 | 5.5 |
Source: Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England
Note: The NHS Constitution sets out the right for patients to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions.