General Practitioners: Standards

(asked on 29th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the average waiting times for GP appointments in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th December 2023

Information on the approximate length of time between appointments being booked and taking place is not held at constituency or city level. The following table shows the percentage of appointments taking place on the same day as booking and within two weeks of booking for England and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Midlands region in each of the last three years:

Appointments - 12 months from November to October

National - Percentage of appointments occuring on the same day of booking

ONS Midlands Region - Percentage of appointments occuring on the same day of booking

National - Appointments occuring within two weeks of booking

ONS Midlands Region - Appointments occuring within two weeks of booking

November 2020 - October 2021

45.2%

47.2%

88.6%

88.7%

November 2021 - October 2022

43.8%

45.8%

85.1%

85.3%

November 2022 - October 2023

43.1%

44.7%

82.5%

82.6%

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